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Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics

By Anne Elvey

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Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2023
ISBN
9780567695116, 9780567695130, 9780567695123
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3740949 bytes)
Pages
\265
Time added
2023-05-22 13:11:14

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Applying a re-envisioned, ecological, feminist hermeneutics, this book builds on two important responses to twentieth- and twenty-first-century situations of ecological trauma, especially the complex contexts of climate change and cross-species relations: first, ecological feminism; second, ecological hermeneutics in the Earth Bible tradition. By way of readings of selected biblical texts, this book suggests that an ecological feminist aesthetic, bringing present situation and biblical text into conversation through engagement with activism and literature, principally poetry, is helpful in decolonizing ethics. Such an approach is both informed by and speaks back to the new materialism in ecological criticism. Cover Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction : Feminisms, Materialisms and Braided Reading with Earth A hermeneutic focus Reading with Earth Ecological feminism, the material given and the matter of the text The material given The matter of the text Situational materialities The white woman Ecological feminist hermeneutic weavings An outline Section 1 The Materiality of Breath Chapter 2 Breath and Earth Voice: Exploring an Ecological Hermeneutics of Retrieval An ecological hermeneutics of retrieval and the principle of voice The Magnificat An Earth voice in the Magnificat Earth speaks through the materiality of the text Earth speaks to and through the body, the human senses and the breath Earth, poverty and riches Earth and the promise to the ancestors Conclusion Chapter 3 Retrieving an Earth Voice: Reading Materially ‘As If It’s Holy’ A material sacred An Earth voice? The matter of voice The text as a material thing ‘Parchment’ (Boisseau) ‘O Taste and See’ (Levertov) ‘To Live in the Mercy of God’ (Levertov) Reading ‘as if it is holy’ Conclusion Chapter 4 Strained Breath and Open Text: Exploring the Materiality of Breath in Relation to Luke 4.16-30 The materiality of air and breath Ecologies of breath and corporealities of resistance Breath as intertext Some matters of biblical breath A performative reading of Luke 4.16-30 Conclusion Section 2 Situating Ecological Materialism Chapter 5 Reframing Feminist Approaches Ecologically: Matter, Freedom and the Future Matter, materialities and materialisms A materialist frame and matter-spirit dualism Material agency A materialist freedom Summary Freedom and a future unlike the present The materiality of who we are Conclusion Chapter 6
Climate Change as Material Situation: Interpreting the Present Period (Καιρός) alongside Luke 12.54-56 The Anthropocene and a deep future Hermeneutic questions Interpreting the time: Climate in Luke Narrative context and judgement Time, season, period (Καιρός) To interpret (Δοκιμάζω) Re-framing climate change Conclusion Chapter 7 Rethinking Neighbour Love: Political Theology, Sovereignty and an Ecological Materialist Reading of Luke 10.25-37 Political theology, ecological ethics and ecological feminist hermeneutics A conversation An ecological materialism Lukan sovereignties The parable of the Good Samaritan Towards an ecological materialist conversation Conclusion Section 3 Shared Vulnerabilities Chapter 8 An Ecological Feminist Approach to Cross Species Relatedness: Compassion and Luke 10.30-37 Roadsides Relatedness Compassion A Lukan Story of the Road: Luke 10.30-37 A fleshy space of solidarity Entanglements and ecological conversion Entangled life and kin Ecological conversion Conclusion Chapter 9 Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR) and Isaiah 40.4 (and Luke 3.5): Resisting the Violence of Homogenization Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR) An ecological feminist analysis of homogenization Homogenization, MTR and Isaiah 40.4 The Bible and MTR MTR and Isaiah 40.4 The force of metaphor in Isaiah 40.4 A lively, responsive Earth and cosmos Conclusion Chapter 10 The Great Barrier Reef and Reading towardS Activism: Transfigurations and Disfigurations Towards an ecological feminist aesthetics Wonder and grief Colour and a material ecstatics Beauty and alterity Ecological feminist hermeneutic weavings The Lukan Transfiguration (Luke 9.28-36) and The Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef The call of the visible Transfigurations and disfigurations The face of the Reef Vibrant materiality: Reef and mountain Sacred/Divine listening Conclusion Chapter 11 Concluding Reflection Exhortation, encouragement and consolation Bibliography Index of references Index of names Index of subjects

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