Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781032243283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 238 str.

Forrest Clingerman; Mark H. Dixon

Opis

Placing Nature furthers the dialogue on religion, ethics, and the environment by exploring three interrelated concepts: to recreate, to replace and to restore. This book self-consciously reflects on the intersections of environmental philosophy, environmental theology, and religion and ecology, stressing the importance of how place interprets us an

Spis treści

Chapter 1 On the Spiritual Understanding of Nature, Páll Skúlason; Part 1 Restoring Place and Meaning, Mark H. Dixon; Chapter 2 Restoration in Space and Place, William R. Jordan III; Chapter 3 Shame, Ritual and Beauty, Todd LeVasseur; Chapter 4 Recreating, in] Eden, Daniel T. Spencer; Chapter 5 Re-creation, Mélanie Walton; Chapter 6 Eschatology of Environmental Bliss in Romans 8:18–22 and the Imperative of Present Environmental Sustainability from a Nigerian Perspective, Sampson M. Nwaomah; Chapter 7 Resurrecting Spirit, James Janowski; Chapter 8 Chanting the Birds Home, A. James Wohlpart; Part 2 Recreating Place, Reconnecting with Others, Forrest Clingerman; Chapter 9 Reading Ourselves through the Land, Martin Drenthen; Chapter 10 Who am I, who are these People, and what is this Place? A Hermeneutic Account of the Self, Others, and Environments, David Utsler; Chapter 11 Concern for Creation, David C. McDuffie; Chapter 12 Recreate, Relate, Decenter, Anna L. Peterson; Chapter 13 Replacing Animal Rights and Liberation Theories, Jonathan Parker; Chapter 14 Re-Placing the Doctrine of the Trinity, Sarah Morice-Brubaker; Chapter 15 In the Beginning and in the End, H. Peter Steeves;

O autorze

Forrest Clingerman is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Ohio Northern University. He has published a number of essays and journal articles on environmental theology and hermeneutics. He has also held leadership positions in the AAR Religion and Animals Consultation, the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, and the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment.

Mark H. Dixon is an Associate Professor of Philosophy. His primary research interests are in environmental philosophy and environmental ethics. He has published articles in environmental ethics and in the philosophy of architecture.