Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781032430904 / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str.

Opis

This book comprises scholarly essays and creative works exploring the implications of Christian environmentalism through literary and cultural criticism. For scholars, researchers and upper-level students interested in the relationship between religion and environment, ethics, animal welfare, poetry, and post-secularism.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility  2. The Practice of Lavishing Attention  3. An Ecocritical Reading of Jesus of the Deep Forest  4. Waves and Refugees: Water Metaphors and Epistemological Humility in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do  5. Poems John Terpstra (I)  6. ‘Outrage from lifeless things’: Theodicy and the Anthropogenic Effects of the Fall in Paradise Lost  7. Early Modern Reformed Theology and Nonhuman Animals  8. Bandits  9. Paragon of Animals: An Afterword to “Bandits”  10. From Grass to Galaxy: Alice Meynell’s Poetic Wayfaring in the Meshwork of the World  11. Flannery O’Connor’s Integral Ecology  12. “Can you make this all run again?” The Art and Environmentalism of Margo and Rein Vanderhill  13. Environments of Grace: Reflections on Sacramental Reality in the Work of Bruce Cockburn and David Adams Richards  14. Poems by John Terpstra (II)  15. Birding, Fiction, and Margaret Atwood’s Cultivation of Ecological Awareness  16. “I just can’t get enough of this place”: The Gifts and Complications of John Terpstra’s Love of Hamilton  17. Can We Hear What the Land Is Saying? The Haudenosaunee Two Row Wampum and Via Negativa as Postures for Listening  18. To Dwell Ecologically: The Practice of Re-enchantment

O autorze

Katherine M. Quinsey is Professor Emerita in the English Department at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.