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In
Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Virginia Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between ancient Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought.
List of contents
Introduction
I. BEGINNING AGAIN WITH
KHORA: TRACES OF A DARK COSMOLOGY
Prelude: Anticipations of an Eco-Chorology
Dreaming
Khora: Plato's
TimaeusInterlude: Fragments of an Eco-Chorology
Khroric Legacies: Readers of
Timaeus and Genesis
Interlude: Beginning Again with Scripture
In/Conclusion:
Khora, God, Materiality
Postlude: Beginnings, Again
II. QUEERING CREATION: HAGIOGRAPHY WITHOUT HUMANS
Prelude: Ecocriticism as Queer Theory
Before Hagiography, Autozoography: The
Life of PlotinusQueerly Ecological: The
Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt
Interlude: Desertification
Holy Disfigurations: The
Life of SyncleticaSaint as Posthuman Assemblage: The
Life of Simeon the StyliteInterlude: Performance Art
In/Conclusion: Saints and Other Queer Creatures
Postlude: A Tough Love
III. Things and Practices: Arts of Coexistence
Prelude: Theorizing Things
Things: Relics and Icons in an Animate World
Things: Architecture, Landscape, Cosmos
: Fragments of a Material Theology of Things
Things: Rhetoric and Performativity in Basil's Hexaemeron
Desiring Things: Contemplation, Creation, and God in Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius
: Words and Things
/Conclusion: Things, Practices, Piety
: The Things That Matter
Epilogue: Worm Stories
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
About the author
Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. She is author of Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects and The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Summary
In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Virginia Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between ancient Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought.
