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List of contents
Chapter 1:
Introduction: Feminisms, Materialisms and Reading with Earth
Section 1: The Materiality of Breath
Chapter 2:
Breath and Earth Voice: Exploring an Ecological Hermeneutics of Retrieval
Chapter 3:
Retrieving an Earth Voice: Reading Materially ‘as if it’s holy’
Chapter 4:
Strained Breath and Open Text: Exploring the Materiality of Breath in Relation to Reading Luke 4:16-30
Section 2: Situating Ecological Materialism
Chapter 5:
Reframing Feminist Approaches Ecologically: Matter, Freedom and the Future
Chapter 6:
Climate Change as Material Situation: Interpreting the Present Period alongside Luke 12.54-56
Chapter 7:
Rethinking Neighbour Love: Political Theology, Ecological Ethics and an Ecological Materialist Reading of Luke 10.25-37
Section 3: Shared Vulnerabilities
Chapter 8:
An Ecological Feminist Approach to Cross Species Relatedness: Compassion and Luke 10.30-37
Chapter 9:
Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR) and Isaiah 40.4 (and Luke 3.5): Resisting the Violence of Homogenization
Chapter 10:
The Great Barrier Reef and Reading toward Activism: Transfigurations and Disfigurations
Chapter 11:
Concluding Reflection
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Anne Elvey is Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia, and Honorary Research Associate at University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia.
Summary
Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Established Scholar
Applying a re-envisioned, ecological, feminist hermeneutics, this book builds on two important responses to twentieth- and twenty-first-century situations of ecological trauma, especially the complex contexts of climate change and cross-species relations: first, ecological feminism; second, ecological hermeneutics in the Earth Bible tradition.
By way of readings of selected biblical texts, this book suggests that an ecological feminist aesthetic, bringing present situation and biblical text into conversation through engagement with activism and literature, principally poetry, is helpful in decolonizing ethics. Such an approach is both informed by and speaks back to the new materialism in ecological criticism.
Foreword
Demonstrates a decolonizing ecological feminist hermeneutics for biblical study informed by the material turn and engagements with literature.
Additional text
Anne Elvey has written a very helpful guide to addressing the crisis of climate change in the context of biblical hermeneutics and feminist scholarship.
