Earthly Things

Karen Bray (Edited By)Karen Bray is Associate Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Social Change and Director of the Honors Program at Wesleyan College. Her recent publications include Grave Attending: A Political Theology for the Unredeemed and the co-edited volume Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies.Heather Eaton (Edited By)Heather Eaton is Full Professor at St. Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Introducing Ecofeminist Theologies, co-editor, with Lauren Levesque, of Advancing Nonviolence and Social Transformation, and editor of The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry: Imagining the Earth Community.Whitney Bauman (Edited By)Whitney Bauman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He is also co-founder and co-director of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge, a nonprofit based in Berlin, Germany. His publications include Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic andEnvironmental Ethics and Uncertainty: Tackling Wicked Problems (co-written with Kevin O'Brien).

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IntroductionKaren Bray, Heather Eaton, and Whitney Bauman | 1Confucianism as a Form of Immanental NaturalismMary Evelyn Tucker | 15Immanence in Hinduism and Jainism: New Planetary Thinking?Christopher Key Chapple | 31Mountains Preach the Dharma: Immanence in Maha¯ya¯na BuddhismChristopher Ives | 49Africana Sacred Matters: Religious Materialities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the AmericasElana Jefferson-Tatum | 60We have always been animists . . .Graham Harvey | 74Indigenous Cosmovisions and a Humanist Perspective on MaterialismJohn Grim | 88Amorous Entanglements: The Matter of Christian PanentheismCatherine Keller | 99On the Matter of Hope: Weaving Threads of Jewish Wisdom for the Sake of the PlanetaryO'neil Van Horn | 111Oily Animations: On Protestantism and PetroleumTerra Schwerin Rowe | 123Interreligious Approaches to Sustainability Without a Future:Two New Materialist Proposals for Religion and EcologyKevin Minister | 136Which Materialism, Whose Planetary Thinking?Joerg Rieger | 148Rewilding Religion for a Primeval FutureSarah M. Pike | 161Planetary Thinking, Agency, and Relationality: Religious Naturalism's PleaCarol Wayne White | 173Dancing Immanence: A Philosophy of Bodily BecomingKimerer L. LaMothe | 186The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano BrunoMary-Jane Rubenstein | 198Emergence Theory and the New MaterialismsKevin Schilbrack | 210New Materialisms and Planetary Persistence, Purpose, and PoliticsHeather Eaton | 222Gut Theology: The Peril and Promise of Political AffectKaren Bray | 234The Entangled Relations of Our Ecological Crisis:Religion, Capitalism's Logics, and New Forms of Planetary ThinkingMatthew R. Hartman | 248Solidarity with Nonhumans: Being Ecological with Object-Oriented OntologySam Mickey | 260Developing a Critical Romantic Religiosity for a Planetary CommunityWhitney A. Bauman | 274Matter Values: Ethics and Politics for a Planet in CrisisPhilip Clayton | 289Acknowledgments | 303Bibliography | 305List of Contributors | 335Index | 341