Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth

Contents

C O N T E N T S Preface xi Introduction: Grounding Theory—Earth in Religion and Philosophy 兩 Catherine Keller and Laurel Kearns 1 ECOGROUNDS: LANGUAGE , MATRIX , PRACTICE Ecotheology and World Religions 兩 Jay McDaniel 21 Talking the Walk: A Practice-Based Environmental Ethic as Grounds for Hope 兩 Anna L. Peterson 45 Talking Dirty: Ground Is Not Foundation 兩 Catherine Keller 63 Ecofeminist Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics: A Comparative View 兩 Rosemary Radford Ruether 77 ECONATURES: SCIENCE , FAITH, P HILOSOPHY Cooking the Truth: Faith, Science, the Market, and Global Warming 兩 Laurel Kearns 97 Ecospirituality and the Blurred Boundaries of Humans, Animals, and Machines 兩 Glen A. Mazis 125 Getting Over ‘‘Nature’’: Modern Bifurcations, Postmodern Possibilities 兩 Barbara Muraca 156 viii 兩 c ont e n ts Toward an Ethics of Biodiversity: Science and Theology in Environmentalist Dialogue 兩 Kevin J. O’Brien 178 Indigenous Knowing and Responsible Life in the World 兩 John Grim 196 ECONSTRUCTIONS: THEORY AND THEOLOGY The Preoriginal Gift—and Our Response to It 兩 Anne Primavesi 217 Prometheus Redeemed? From Autoconstruction to Ecopoetics 兩 Kate Rigby 233 Toward a Deleuze-Guattarian Micropneumatology of SpiritDust 兩 Luke Higgins 252 Specters of Derrida: On the Way to Econstruction 兩 David Wood 264 ECODOCTRINES: SPIRIT, C REATION, ATONEMENT, ESCHATON Sacred-Land Theology: Green Spirit, Deconstruction, and the Question of Idolatry in Contemporary Earthen Christianity 兩 Mark I. Wallace 291 Grounding the Spirit: An Ecofeminist Pneumatology Sharon Betcher 315 Hearing the Outcry of Mute Things: Toward a Jewish Creation Theology 兩 Lawrence Troster 337 Creatio ex Nihilo, Terra Nullius, and the Erasure of Presence Whitney A. Bauman 353 Surrogate Suffering: Paradigms of Sin, Salvation, and Sacrifice Within the Vivisection Movement 兩 Antonia Gorman 373 The Hope of the Earth: A Process Ecoeschatology for South Korea 兩 Seung Gap Lee 392 ECOSPA CES: DESECRATION, SACRALITY, PLACE Restoring Earth, Restored to Earth: Toward an Ethic for Reinhabiting Place 兩 Daniel T. Spencer 415 Caribou and Carbon Colonialism: Toward a Theology of Arctic Place 兩 Marion Grau 433 Divining New Orleans: Invoking Wisdom for the Redemption of Place 兩 Anne Daniell 454 c o nt e n ts 兩 ix Constructing Nature at a Chapel in the Woods Richard R. Bohannon II 468 Felling Sacred Groves: Appropriation of a Christian Tradition for Antienvironmentalism 兩 Nicole A. Roskos 483 ECOHOPES: E NACTMENTS, POETICS, LITURGICS Ethics and Ecology: A Primary Challenge of the Dialogue of Civilizations 兩 Mary Evelyn Tucker 495 Religion and the Earth on the Ground: The Experience of GreenFaith in New Jersey 兩 Fletcher Harper 504 Cries of Creation, Ground for Hope: Faith, Justice, and the Earth Interfaith Worship Service 兩 Jane Ellen Nickell and Lawrence Troster 517 The Firm Ground for Hope: A Ritual for Planting Humans and Trees 兩 Heather Murray Elkins, with assistance from David Wood 531 Musings from White Rock Lake: Poems 兩 Karen Baker-Fletcher 536 Notes 543 Contributors 637 ...