Natural Communions: Religion and Public Life, Volume 40

ISBN-13: 9780367231811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Gabriel R. Ricci

Opis

Natural Communions offers interdisciplinary essays that view the sacred from the perspective of an Earth-centered spirituality, redefining humanity’s response to ecological challenges and engendering a more expansive cosmology complete with a naturalized conception of Divine Reality.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Five Ways of the Cosmos: Stoicism and Eco-Spirituality in the Perennial Tradition 2. A Functional Cosmology for the Crisis of the Anthropocene 3. Earth Medicine Man Makes This Place: A Prolegomenon to an Akimel O’odham Environmental Ethics 4. Ecological Conversions in American Religious and Literary Culture 5. Green Calvinism: Reformed Protestant Origins of Western Environmentalism 6. The Symbolic Garden and the Spiritual Understanding of Nature in Byzantium 7. Eco-Spirituality in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina 8. A Sustainable City Upon a Hill? A Berryite Perspective on US Cultural Examples and American Innocence 9. Reinventing Humanity with an Eco-Spirituality Informed by a Cosmology of Cosmogenesis 10. Big Miracle and Religious Naturalism: Rescuing Myriad Nature from Popular Fantasies of Nature Rescue 11. Faith, Nature, and Politics: Developing a Non-Reductive Naturalism 12. The Paradox of God in Nature

O autorze

Gabriel R. Ricci is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, where he teaches applied ethics and political philosophy in the Politics, Philosophy and Legal Studies Department. His research interests are in phenomenology and time consciousness; his latest work appears in The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America (Springer, 2019). He has been the editor of Religion and Public Life since 1999.