Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking

Contents\nIntroduction\nConfucianism as a Form of Immanental Naturalism\nImmanence in Hinduism and Jainism: New Planetary Thinking?\nMountains Preach the Dharma: Immanence in Mahayana Buddhism\nAfricana Sacred Matters: Religious Materialities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas\nWe have always been animists . . .\nIndigenous Cosmovisions and a Humanist Perspective on Materialism\nAmorous Entanglements: The Matter of Christian Panentheism\nOn the Matter of Hope: Weaving Threads of Jewish Wisdom for the Sake of the Planetary\nOily Animations: On Protestantism and Petroleum\nInterreligious Approaches to Sustainability Without a Future: Two New Materialist Proposals for Religion and Ecology\nWhich Materialism, Whose Planetary Thinking?\nRewilding Religion for a Primeval Future\nPlanetary Thinking, Agency, and Relationality: Religious Naturalism’s Plea\nDancing Immanence: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming\nThe Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno\nEmergence Theory and the New Materialisms\nNew Materialisms and Planetary Persistence, Purpose, and Politics\nGut Theology: The Peril and Promise of Political Affect\nThe Entangled Relations of Our Ecological Crisis: Religion, Capitalism’s Logics, and New Forms of Planetary Thinking\nSolidarity with Nonhumans: Being Ecological with Object-Oriented Ontology\nDeveloping a Critical Romantic Religiosity for a Planetary Community\nMatter Values: Ethics and Politics for a Planet in Crisis\nAcknowledgments\nBibliography\nContributors\nIndex