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Zusatztext With striking analytical precision and breadth, Rowe unearths the enchantments of modern energy that have kept western (Christian) societies beholden to its material functions, wealth, and weight. By carefully assessing the sacred workings (and burdens) of petro-culture she forces us to recognize just how essential it will be to pursue a sustainable future by imagining alternative theological as well as technological paths. Informationen zum Autor Terra Schwerin Rowe is Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas, USA Vorwort Analyzes the ways that energy, extraction, and oil have been entwined with Western gender ideals and Christian narratives, while simultaneously exploring alternative energies from the margins of Christian thought and practice. Zusammenfassung Predominant climate change narratives emphasize a global emissions problem, while diagnoses of environmental crises have long focused a modern loss of meaning, value, and enchantment in nature. Yet neither of these common portrayals of environmental emergency adequately account for the ways climate change is rooted in extractivisms that have been profoundly enchanted.The proposed critical petro-theology analyzes the current energy driven climate crisis through critical gender, race, decolonial, and postsecular lenses. Both predominant narratives obscure the entanglements of bodies and energy: how energy concepts and practices have consistently delineated genres of humanity and how energy systems and technologies have shaped bodies. Consequently, these analytical and ethical aims inform an exploration of alternative embodied energies that can be attended to in the disrupted time/space of energy intensive, extractive capitalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1 Energy Chapter 2 Extraction Chapter 3 Capital Chapter 4 Oil Chapter 5 Alternate EnergiesBibliographyIndex
