Sébastien Doane – författare

By considering multiple nonhuman or more-than-human perspectives, this book stimulates imaginative, non-anthropocentric ways of narrating the world, moving beyond traditional biblical narratives and interpretations centered on human protagonists.Recent biblical scholarship influenced by animal studies understand nonhuman animals of biblical texts as living agents/actants with their own storied perspectives. This perspective challenges anthropocentric ways of reading the Bible, one of the central concerns of ecological hermeneutics. This volume brings together scholars from diverse disciplinary and geographic backgrounds to explore animal agency and actancy in scripture, tracing the ethical, ecological, and theological implications of reading biblical texts with attention to nonhuman perspectives. By emphasizing animal agency and ecological entanglement, the book participates in a broader effort to rethink the Bible’s human-centered canon in ways that respond to both scholarly and real-world concerns, representing a critical step in reorienting biblical scholarship toward ecological relationality.Animal Agency, Ecology and the Bible is of interest to students and scholars working on animal studies, ecological hermeneutics, and biblical interpretation.

Reading the Bible Amid the Environmental Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights to Ecological Hermeneutics ventures into the realms of love, loss, despair, and compassion, demonstrating the profound interconnectedness of ecology with every facet of human existence. Drawing from diverse disciplines such as trauma theory, affect theory, ethics, animal studies, posthumanism philosophy, and environmental humanities. Sébastien Doane intertwines biblical texts and theoretical frameworks to challenge traditional methodologies, presenting a fresh perspective on the ecological crisis of our time. This book argues for a vital role of biblical studies in addressing the ecological challenge, acknowledging the Bible’s profound influence on Western cultures. Doane advocates for critical examination of anthropocentrism in biblical texts, exploring innovative ways to read the Bible in the Anthropocene.