1st Edition

Natural Communions Religion and Public Life, Volume 40

Edited By Gabriel Ricci Copyright 2019
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

The academic treatment of the environment and nature, since the 1980s, has been formalized in sub-disciplines like environmental history, environmental philosophy, ecocriticism, and eco-spirituality. Within these disciplines the concept of nature has been variously employed to reorient humanity to a holistic moral standard. In each case there is general consensus that inquiry ought to turn on... Read more

Introduction [Gabriel R. Ricci]
1. The Five Ways of the Cosmos: Stoicism and Eco-Spirituality in the Perennial Tradition [Christopher S. Morrissey]
2. A Functional Cosmology for the Crisis of the Anthropocene [Caroline Smith]
3. Earth Medicine Man Makes This Place: A Prolegomenon to an Akimel O’odham Environmental Ethics [David Martínez] 4. Ecological Conversions in American Religious and Literary Culture [Brian Yothers]
5. Green Calvinism: Reformed Protestant Origins of Western Environmentalism [Mark Stoll]
6. The Symbolic Garden and the Spiritual Understanding of Nature in Byzantium [Kirsty Stewart]
7. Eco-Spirituality in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina [Anastassiya Adrianova]
8. A Sustainable City Upon a Hill? A Berryite Perspective on US Cultural Examples and American Innocence [Christopher Hrynkow]
9. Reinventing Humanity with an Eco-Spirituality Informed by a Cosmology of Cosmogenesis [Dennis O’Hara]
10. Big Miracle and Religious Naturalism: Rescuing Myriad Nature from Popular Fantasies of Nature Rescue [Carol Wayne White]
11. Faith, Nature, and Politics: Developing a Non-Reductive Naturalism [Whitney A. Bauman]
12. The Paradox of God in Nature [Martin O. Yalcin]

Biography

Gabriel R. Ricci is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College, where he teaches applied ethics and political philosophy in the Politics, Philosophy and Legal Studies Department. His research interests are in phenomenology and time consciousness; his latest work appears in The Reception of Husserlian Phenomenology in North America (Springer, 2019). He has been the editor of Religion and Public Life since 1999.