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- Divinanimality: Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
summary
A turn to the animal is underway in the humanities, most obviously in such fields as philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. One important catalyst for this development has been the remarkable body of animal theory issuing from such thinkers as Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway. What might the resulting interdisciplinary field, commonly termed animality studies, mean for theology, biblical studies, and other cognate disciplines? Is it possible to move from animal theory to creaturely theology? _x000B__x000B_This volume is the first full-length attempt to grapple centrally with these questions. It attempts to triangulate philosophical and theoretical reflections on animality and humanity with theological reflections on divinity. If the animal–human distinction is being rethought and retheorized as never before, then the animal–human–divine distinctions need to be rethought, retheorized, and retheologized along with it. This is the task that the multidisciplinary team of theologians, biblical scholars, philosophers, and historians assembled in this volume collectively undertakes. They do so frequently with recourse to Derrida’s animal philosophy, but also with recourse to an eclectic range of other relevant thinkers, such as Haraway, Giorgio Agamben, Emmanuel Levinas, Gloria Anzaldúa, Hélène Cixous, A. N. Whitehead, and Lynn White Jr. _x000B__x000B_The result is a volume that will be essential reading for religious studies audiences interested in ecological issues, animality studies, and posthumanism, as well as for animality studies audiences interested in how constructions of the divine have informed constructions of the nonhuman animal through history._x000B_
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 17-20
- The Divinanimality of Lord Sequoia
- pp. 120-135
- Animal Calls
- pp. 136-153
- Daniel’s Animal Apocalypse
- pp. 202-215
- Ecotherology
- pp. 216-229
- So Many Faces: God, Humans, and Animals
- pp. 243-260
- Contributors
- pp. 371-376
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823263233
Related ISBN(s)
9780823263196
MARC Record
OCLC
891688208
Pages
392
Launched on MUSE
2014-09-30
Language
English
Open Access
No