The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature: The Elements

Cover page
Halftitle page
Bloomsbury Handbooks
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Introduction
	THE (RE)TURN TO IMMANENCE
	THE NEW MATERIALISMS
PART ONE Earth
	CHAPTER ONE Backyard Gardens as Sacred Spaces: An Ecowomanist Spiritual Ecology
		TRACES OF BEAUTY AND BARE HANDS: MEMORIES OFGRAND MOTHER’S SMILE, ROSES, AND NEIGHBORS
		SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY
		THE ECOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES
		SPACING THE SACRED IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN GARDENS
		THE SACRED SPACING OF GARDENS AND EARTH AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS
		CONCLUSION
	CHAPTER TWO In a Body on Wheels in Touch with the Earth: Cycling as Religion and Response
		OUTDOOR EXPERIENCES AS RELIGION
		“I WANT TO RIDE MY BICYCLE, I WANT TO RIDE MY BIKE.”14
		THE SHRINES OF CYCLING
		“WE WERE LIKE GODS FOR THE SPECTATORS”25
		CYCLING AS AGENT OF SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
		CONCLUSIONS: I STILL WANT TO RIDE MY BICYCLE
	CHAPTER THREE Pressure, Gestures: Sacral Work: Bodies Poetics
		PRESSURES—BREATHE
		WE START WHERE WE ARE
		GESTURING EXPERIENCE
		SACRALITIES OF/WITH/IN BODIES
	CHAPTER FOUR Blood in the Soil: The Racial, Racist, and Religious Dimensions of Environmentalism
		THE WHITE RACIAL FRAME, ECOLOGICAL BURDEN & BEAUTY
		ECOLOGICAL BURDEN OF WHITE ENVIRONMENTALIST LOGIC
		ECOLOGICAL BURDEN OF BLACK EMBODIMENT
		THE ROLE OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
		FROM ECOLOGICAL BURDEN TO ECOLOGICAL BEAUTY
		CONCLUSION
	CHAPTER FIVE To Eat or Be Eaten? That’s the Question1
		FOOD AS FUEL
		EATING AS A DEMONSTRATION OF HUMAN (OR MALE OR WHITE) SUPREMACY
		THE ASCETIC VISION
		HEDONISTIC CONSUMPTION
		CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION
		EATING AS RECYCLING
		PROVIDING FOOD FOR OTHERS THROUGH KENOTIC LOVE
		EATING AS SUPERFLUOUS JOY
		EATING AND THE ECSTASY OF INTIMACY: A PROVISIONAL, MODEST PROPOSAL
PART TWO Air
	CHAPTER SIX The Personhood of Air: The Ammatoans’ Indigenous Perspective
		AMMATOANS’ ADAT ECOLOGY
		THE “AIR” AS A SIGNIFICANT OTHER BEING
		THE “AIR”: MEDIATING THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF THE WORLD
		CONCLUSION
	CHAPTER SEVEN Changing Atmospheres of Religion and Nature
		RELIGION, NATURE, AND AN IMPOVERISHED WORLDVIEW
		THE FIELD OF RELIGION AND NATURE AS INTERPRETING ATMOSPHERES
		CONCLUSION: CHANGING ATMOSPHERES AND HUMAN FLOURISHING
	CHAPTER EIGHT Eco-Dao: An Ecological Theology of Dao
		ECO-DAO: DAO ( 道;WAY)1 AS ECOLOGICAL ROOT-METAPHOR
		THE GREAT ULTIMATE (太極 ; T’AEGŬK/TÀI JÍ )7 AS ONTOCOSMOLOGY
		KI/QI (氣)24 AS METACOSMIC ENERGY
		BREATHING AS SPIRITUALITY
		KI -SOCIOCOSMIC BIOGRAPHY OF THE EXPLOITED LIFE AS A HERMENEUTICAL KEY
		ECO-DAO AND LAUDATO SI’
	CHAPTER NINE Remembering the Air: Aesthetic, Ethical, and Spiritual Dimensions of Wind Energy
		THE FORGOTTEN AIR
		WIND AESTHETICS
		SIGHTS UNSEEN
		HEAVENLY AND HELLISH ENERGY
		WIND AND SPIRIT
	CHAPTER TEN Con-spiring Together: Breathing for Justice
		RUACH : THE BREATH OF LIFE, THE AIR WE BREATHE
		I CAN’T BREATHE
		BAD AIR
		TAKE A DEEP BREATH
PART THREE Fire
	CHAPTER ELEVEN Recovering/Uncovering Animality
		A MODERN RE-EMERGENCE
		INTO THE REALM OF OTHER ANIMALS—COMPANION ANIMALS ON FIRE
		COMPANIONS MADE FOR EACH OTHER?
		CHALLENGING THE SEPARATION NARRATIVE
		OUT OF THE FIRE AND INTO THE FRYING PAN—DOMESTICATED FOOD ANIMALS
		HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM—“USING THEM AS WE SEE FIT”
		REIMAGINING BIOLOGY
		GOING WILD
		BRINGING TOGETHER TWO PATHS
		EXHORTATIONS TO SELF-ACTUALIZATION
		CONSTRUCTIVELY CHALLENGING HUMAN-EXCEPTIONALISM
	CHAPTER TWELVE Feral Becoming and Environmentalism’s Primal Future
		REWILDING THE SELF AND PLANET
		A PRIMAL FUTURE AND THE PRIMITIVE SKILLS MOVEMENT
		LIVING LIGHTLY ON THE LAND: WILD ROOTS HOMESTEAD
		THE FRAUGHT PRACTICES AND AMBIGUITIES OF REWILDING
		BURNING RAGE AND BURNING PROPERTY
	CHAPTER THIRTEEN From Refiner’s Fire to Refinery Fires: Reflectionson the Combustive Element of Fire
		BURNING BRIGHT
		ELEMENTAL CHEMISTRY—SACRED ALCHEMY
		ENTANGLEMENT AND THE ELEMENTS AS “SENSIBLE TRANSCENDENTALS”
		FIRE AS ENERGY
		WATER IS LIFE—KILLING THE BLACK SNAKE (#NODAPL)28
		OILED UP
		GREASING THE WHEELS
		EXTREME UNCTION: DYING TO PETROLEUM, LIVING TO THE COSMOS?
		ANOINTING TOWARDS DIFFERENT ECONOMY: FROM CRUDE TO WATERY
		SACRAMENTAL FIRE
		ANOINTED WITH OIL
	CHAPTER FOURTEEN Fire, Religion, Nature, and Shona Culture
		WOMEN AS AGENTS OF KNOWLEDGE
		SUSTAINABILITY, RELIGION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
		CHANGING IDEAS ABOUT FIRE
		ALTERNATIVE MODERN SHONA GOD-TALK ON LIVING WITH DEATH
	CHAPTER FIFTEEN Protective Occupation, Emergent Networks, Rituals of Solidarity: Comparing Alta (Sápmi), Mauna Kea (Hawai‘i), and Standing Rock (North Dakota)
		INTRODUCTION: SACRED FIRES AND SMOKE SIGNALS
		THE ALTA CASE
		STANDING ROCK
		MAUNA KEA
		PROTECTORS NOT PROTESTERS
		CAMPS AND CONNECTIONS
		RELIGION AND RITUALS
		FIRES STILL BURN
PART FOUR Water
	CHAPTER SIXTEEN Buddhism, Bodhisattvas, and the Compassionate Wisdom of Water1
		THE ARCHETYPE OF THE BODHISATTVA AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF WISDOM AND COMPASSION
		THE SEVENTEENTH KARMAPA, THE BODHISATTVA, AND WATER
		THE ECOSATTVA AND THE AQUASATTVA
	CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Mountains of Memory: Confronting Climate Change in Sacred Mountain Landscapes
		INTRODUCTION
		ALPINE GLACIER DECLINE
		MOUNTAIN DEITIES, RITUALS, AND MEMORY
		GLACIERS AS EARTH’S MEMORY
		CONCLUSION
	CHAPTER EIGHTEEN At the Mercy of Sacred Waters: Sanctification, Fetishization, Permeation, and Responsiveness
		WATER AS ROOT-FORCE
		WATER IN MOTION WITHIN A RESPONSIVE WORLD
		SANCTIFYING COSMIC WATERS
		FETISHIZED AND COMMODITIZED WATER
		WATER RECLAIMING ITS FORCE IN RESONATING SPACE
	CHAPTER NINETEEN Water from a Stone: Dams, Deserts, and the Miracle of Moses in the Modern World
		LYNN WHITE AND OUR ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
		BIBLICAL SUBSTANTIATION AND ORDAINED STEWARDSHIP
		WATER IN THE [DISAPPEARING] WILDERNESS
	CHAPTER TWENTY Conclusion: Thinking with the Elements
		THE EMERGING HOPE
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX