1st Edition
Ethics Across Borders Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divides
1 Introduction: Ethics across religious, political, and ecological borders
Gary Slater
SECTION I Political
2 Rebordering nature: From geopolitics to geo-politics and a philosophy of geopower
Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary
3 In-between spaces in border regions: Examples in the Middle East
Daniel Meier
4 The leaky boundaries of man-made states: On the ethical ambivalence of borders
Marianne Heimbach-Steins
5 Political border crossings: Some normative considerations
Donald A. Crosby
6 Politics and its limits: From analytical to ecological borders
Ivo Frankenreiter
SECTION II Ecological
7 Planetary boundaries
Markus Vogt
8 Boundaries to the more-than-human as creative zones: Resources for a renewal of theological anthropology
Michael Nausner
9 Migrations of the sacred: Crossing the human border
Willis Jenkins
10 Natural borders: Emergence and values realism
Kevin Schilbrack
11 Reflections on the modern boundary of value and the possibility of reenchanted science
Nathaniel F. Barrett
SECTION III Religious
12 Do good fences make good neighbors? Religious borders, porosity, and the question of appropriation
John J. Thatamanil
13 Identity and cultural trespassing: Rabbinic interpretations of cross-border interactions
Amos Israel-Vleeschhouwer and Tamar Arieli
14 The confessional divide in the post-Westphalian order: Making religious borders flexible
Doron Avraham
15 The invisible border: The vanishing line of separation between church and state
Robert A. Yelle
16 From foundational relationality to populist borders: How did we get here?
Marcia Pally
Overviews
17 Walls, weather, and the spirit in-between: Exercises in border thinking
Sigurd Bergmann
18 Conclusion
Lisa Landoe Hedrick
Biography
Gary Slater is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Christian Social Sciences, University of Münster, and Editor of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy. His research is funded by the German Research Council (DFG), and it focuses on borders, migration, environmental ethics, interreligious theology, and philosophical pragmatism.
Lisa Landoe Hedrick is Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago. She is the author of Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality (2021) and contributor to Diversifying the Philosophy of Religion: Critiques, Methods, and Case Studies (2023).
