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Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pretense of mastery over it. But how can we confront climate change when political crises keep exploding in the present? Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the feedback loop of political and ecological depredation as secularized apocalypse. Carl Schmitt's political theology of the sovereign exception sheds light on present ideological warfare; racial, ethnic, economic, and sexual conflict; and hubristic anthropocentrism. If the politics of exceptionalism are theological in origin, she asks, should we not enlist the world's religious communities as part of the resistance?Keller calls for dissolving the opposition between the religious and the secular in favor of a broad planetary movement for social and ecological justice. When we are confronted by populist, authoritarian right wings founded on white male Christian supremacism, we can counter with a messianically charged, often unspoken theology of the now-moment, calling for a complex new public. Such a political theology of the earth activates the world's entangled populations, joined in solidarity and committed to revolutionary solutions to the entwined crises of the Anthropocene.

AbstractIn common parlance, an apocalypse refers to a calamity that signals the end. It represents a closure. But the original meaning in the biblical Greek is the opposite. Apocalypse means "revelation" or disclosure. It offers hope, not despair. For the early Christians facing persecution by the Roman Empire, hope was disclosed in a coded narrative that showed the hidden weakness of their tormentors. The "beast" of imperial power and the "great whore" of its global economy crash in mutual destruction. For us, the revelation we most need is reflexive: signs that will enable us to see clearly how our current civilization is self‐destructive. If the new Rome is the Pax Americana, the empire that the United States has imposed on much of the world in the name of democracy and freedom, the "whore of Babylon" is the global economy. Once again, what appears on the surface to be an unstoppable force of progress is the engine of its own destruction. Right‐wing Christians have inverted the vision, seeing, by analogy, the emperor as the one being persecuted. Rather than abandoning the apocalypse to reactionary literalizations or liberal paralysis, we may read it in terms of a counter‐apocalypse. Not a mere anti‐apocalypse, this symbolic strategy helps us to address such cataclysmic threats as climate change in the spirit of an honest hope, beyond panic or evasion.

"In Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge-that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also a form of eschatology that forces us to imagine new ways of being religious and political in our cohabitation of a fragile and shared planet. Each of the essays in this volume attends to how climate change and our ecological crises intersect and interact with more traditional themes of political theology. While the tradition of political theology is often associated with philosophical responses to the work of Carl Schmitt-and the critical attempts to disengage religion from his rightwing politics-the contributors to this volume are informed by Schmitt but not limited to his perspectives. They engage and transform political theology from the standpoint of climate change, the politics of race, and non-Christian political theologies including Islam and Sikhism. Important themes include the Anthropocene, ecology, capitalism, sovereignty, Black Lives Matter, affect theory, continental philosophy, destruction, and suicide. This book features world renowned scholars and emerging voices that together open up the tradition of political theology to new ideas and new ways of thinking. Contributors: Gil Anidjar, Balbinder Singh Bhogal, J. Kameron Carter, William E. Connolly, Kelly Brown Douglas, Seth Gaiters, Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Winfred Goodwin, Lawrence Hillis, Mehmet Karabela, Michael Northcott, Austin Roberts, Noëlle Vahanian, Larry L. Welborn"--

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Grounding Theory—Earth in Religion and Philosophy -- Ecotheology and World Religions -- Talking the Walk: A Practice-Based Environmental Ethic as Grounds for Hope -- Talking Dirty: Ground Is Not Foundation -- Ecofeminist Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics: A Comparative View -- Cooking the Truth: Faith, Science, the Market, and Global Warming -- Ecospirituality and the Blurred Boundaries of Humans, Animals, and Machines -- Getting Over ''Nature'': Modern Bifurcations, Postmodern Possibilities -- Toward an Ethics of Biodiversity: Science and Theology in Environmentalist Dialogue -- Indigenous Knowing and Responsible Life in the World -- The Preoriginal Gift—and Our Response to It -- Prometheus Redeemed? From Autoconstruction to Ecopoetics -- Toward a Deleuze-Guattarian Micropneumatology of Spirit- Dust -- Specters of Derrida: On the Way to Econstruction -- Sacred-Land Theology: Green Spirit, Deconstruction, and the Question of Idolatry in Contemporary Earthen Christianity -- Grounding the Spirit: An Ecofeminist Pneumatology -- Hearing the Outcry of Mute Things: Toward a Jewish Creation Theology -- Creatio ex Nihilo, Terra Nullius, and the Erasure of Presence -- Surrogate Suffering: Paradigms of Sin, Salvation, and Sacrifice Within the Vivisection Movement -- The Hope of the Earth: A Process Ecoeschatology for South Korea -- Restoring Earth, Restored to Earth: Toward an Ethic for Reinhabiting Place -- Caribou and Carbon Colonialism: Toward a Theology of Arctic Place -- Divining New Orleans: Invoking Wisdom for the Redemption of Place -- Constructing Nature at a Chapel in the Woods -- Felling Sacred Groves: Appropriation of a Christian Tradition for Antienvironmentalism -- Ethics and Ecology: A Primary Challenge of the Dialogue of Civilizations -- Religion and the Earth on the Ground: The Experience of GreenFaith in New Jersey -- Cries of Creation, Ground for Hope: Faith, Justice, and the Earth Interfaith Worship Service -- The Firm Ground for Hope: A Ritual for Planting Humans and Trees -- Musings from White Rock Lake: Poems -- Notes -- Contributors

Machine generated contents note:MATTER, ANEW --What Flashes Up: Theological-Political-Scientific Fragments /Karen Barad --Vegetal Life and Onto-Sympathy /Jane Bennett --Tingles of Matter, Tangles of Theology /Catherine Keller --Agents Matter and Matter Agents: Interpretation and Value from Cells to Gaia /Elizabeth Singleton --THE MATTER OF RELIGION --The Matter with Pantheism: On Shepherds and Goat-Gods and Mountains and Monsters /Mary-Jane Rubenstein --Material Subjects, Immaterial Bodies: Abhinavagupta's Panentheist Matter /Loriliai Biernacki --Theophanic Materiality: Political Ecology, Inhuman Touch, and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy /Jacob J. Erickson --Interdisciplinary Ethics: From Astro-Theology to Cosmo-Liberation Theology /Theodore Walker Jr. --Vascularizing the Study of Religion: Multi-Agent Figurations and Cosmopolitics /Manuel A. Vasquez --ETHICOPOLITICAL ENTANGLEMENTS --Stubborn Materiality: African American Religious Naturalism and Becoming Our Humanity /Carol Wayne White --Grace in Intra-action: Complementarity and the Noncircular Gift /Terra S. Rowe --The Door of No Return: An Africana Reading of Complexity /Elias Ortega-Aponte --The Trouble with Commonality: Theology, Evolutionary Theory, and Creaturely Kinship /Beatrice Marovich.

This collection examines the intersections of religion and "new" materialisms. Calling upon an interdisciplinary throng of scholars in science studies, religious studies, and theology, it assembles a multiplicity of experimental perspectives on materiality: what is matter, how does it materialize, and what sort of worlds are enacted in its varied entanglements with divinity?

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Tangled Matters -- What Flashes Up: Theological-Political-Scientific Fragments -- Vegetal Life and Onto-Sympathy -- Tingles of Matter, Tangles of Theology -- Agents Matter and Matter Agents: Interpretation and Value from Cells to Gaia -- The Matter with Pantheism: On Shepherds and Goat-Gods and Mountains and Monsters -- Material Subjects, Immaterial Bodies: Abhinavagupta's Panentheist Matter -- Theophanic Materiality: Political Ecology, Inhuman Touch, and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy -- Interdisciplinary Ethics: From Astro-Theology to Cosmo-Liberation Theology -- Vascularizing the Study of Religion: Multi-Agent Figurations and Cosmopolitics -- Stubborn Materiality: African American Religious Naturalism and Becoming Our Humanity -- Grace in Intra-action: Complementarity and the Noncircular Gift -- The Door of No Return: An Africana Reading of Complexity -- The Trouble with Commonality: Theology, Evolutionary Theory, and Creaturely Kinship -- List of Contributors -- TRANSDISCIPLINARY THEOLOGICAL COLLOQUIA