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"God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock. It argues that a Gaian approach to the ecological crisis involves rebalancing human and more-than-human influences on Earth by reviving the ecological agency of local and indigenous human communities, and of nonhuman beings. Present-day human ecological influences on Earth have been growing at pace since the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, when modern humans adopted a machine cosmology in which humans are the sole intelligent agency. The resultant imbalance between human and Earthly agencies is degrading the species diversity of ecosystems, causing local climate changes, and threatens to destabilise the Earth as a System. Across eight chapters this ambitious text engages with traditional cosmologies from the Indian Vedas and classical Greece to Medieval Christianity, with case material from Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and Great Britain. It discusses concepts such as deep time and ancestral time, the ethics of genetic engineering of foods and viruses, and holistic ecological management. Calling for an ontological turn that honours the differential agency of other beings and draws on sacred traditions, Northcott argues that it is possible to repair the destabilising impacts of contemporary human activities on the Earth System and its constituent ecosystems. This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, history, cultural and religious studies"--

Losing and finding sacred place -- Lament for a silent summer -- Artificial persons and the political economy of place -- Place, religion, and resistance to corporate power -- Wilderness, religion, and ecological restoration in the Scottish highlands -- Food sovereignty from Joshua to La Via Campesina -- The moral geography of sustainable communities -- Re-placing ethics in the city and the countryside.

1. Introduction / Michael S. Northcott and Peter M. Scott -- 2. The Trinity / Timothy Gorringe -- 3. Christology / Niels Henrik Gregersen -- 4. Holy Spirit / Michael S. Northcott -- 5. Creation / Celia Deane-Drummond -- 6. Creatures / Rachel Muers -- 7. Humanity / Peter M. Scott -- 8. Sin and salvation / Neil Messer -- 9. Church / Tamara Grdzelidze -- 10. Eschatology / Stefan Skrimshire.

Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Geopolitics of a Slow Catastrophe -- 2. Coal, Cosmos, and Creation -- 3. Engineering the Air -- 4. Carbon Indulgences, Ecological Debt, and Metabolic Rift -- 5. The Crisis of Cosmopolitan Reason -- 6. The Nomos of the Earth and Governing the Anthropocene -- 7. Revolutionary Messianism and the End of Empire -- Index

This passionately argued book provides the first in-depth investigation of the religious politics of current American neo-conservatism. It shows that behind the neo-imperialism of the White House and George W. Bush lies an apocalyptic vision of the United States's sacred destiny 'at the end of history', a vision that is shared by millions of Americans. The authors trace the roots of American apocalyptic to Puritan Millennialism and contemporary fundamentalist readings of the Book of Revelation. They suggest that Americans urgently need to recover a critique of Empire of the kind espoused by th

Explores the major environmental controversy raised by the efforts of Redland Aggregate Limited, an English-based quarrying company, to create a large quarry on the coast of Harris, a Hebridean island off the west coast of Scotland. Opposition to the quarry argued that its operation would damage local & traditional methods of employment, including crofting, fishing, & tourism. Initial support of the quarry increased because of hopes of job creation, but it was lost when locals realized that the industrial development of the superquarry would threaten traditional forms of religious & community life. Theological arguments at the 1995 hearing to adjudicate the planning application were given by a Hebridean Quaker ecologist, a Free Church Professor of Theology, & a Canadian Native Indian Chief. The controversy illustrates how local knowledge, traditions, & ritual practices can support resistance to capitalistic corporate & bureaucratic forces. Corporate arguments of sustainable development & NIMBYism are critiqued. The religious ritual of Sabbath observance & cultural symbols in the public sphere of economic development & legal judgment represent resistance to the typical assistance that nation-states provide to corporate industrial assaults on nature. L. A. Hoffman

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figure -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: Metaphysics and Aesthetics -- 1 Fittingness and Other-Regarding Attitudes in Environmental Aesthetics -- 2 Commonage Consciousness and Fitting in with the Earth: John Moriarty and Deep Ecology -- 3 On the Ethics and Metaphysics of Fittingness, Affordances, and Providence -- 4 Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Perspectives from Chinese Religion and Philosophy -- PART II: Theological Perspectives on Fittingness -- 5 The Ontological Turn, Religious Tradition, and Human Cosmological Fittingness -- 6 Fittingness and the Spiritual-Religious Nature of Environmentalism -- 7 Fittingness as Attunement? Being Ecological with Timothy Morton and Hans Urs von Balthasar -- 8 Anselm on Fittingness: Varying Concepts of Fittingness in the Cur Deus homo -- PART III: Practical Applications -- 9 Fittingness as a Dynamic of Social Interaction: Implications for Embedding Ecological Concerns in Community Life and Practice -- 10 When 'Fitting in' means to 'Care': Proposing a form-of-life for Environmental Care -- 11 Representation as Isolation: The Unfittingness of Waste -- 12 The Challenge and Promise of Queer Ecology for Understanding 'Fittingness': A Theological Engagement -- Index.

"This collection presents critical environmental problems with respect to their intersection with culture and religion in Indonesia, such as water resource management, conservation, and political ecology. Scholars from the region ground investigation in ethnographic field studies that represent diverse communities, including Indigenous perspectives from across the archipelago. The discussion is forward-looking and sophisticated, offering a meaningful and critical engagement with the field of religion and ecology." --

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This article discusses the religious dimension of the coastal adaptation of Muslim communities on northern coast of Java, Indonesia. As a volcanic island, geomorphological processes are the main causes of coastal inundation in Java. Nonetheless, debates on coastal adaptation mostly related to climate change adaptation. By focusing on North Coast Java, this study aims to draw parallels between the experiences of Javanese communities and communities facing rising sea levels in other parts of the world. Two Muslim communities were selected as both have experienced coastal flooding and indicate religious dimension in their adaptive strategies. This study has three main findings: 1. The religious dimension contributes significantly to environmental adaptation processes; 2. Religious practices interact in both positive and negative ways to affect the adapting communities; and 3. In the Javanese context, environmental adaptation takes the form of a narrative around local history and the experiential knowledge of the drowning communities.