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This volume addresses the critical role of religion in the world today, and how it is caught up in the transition from modern liberalism to postmodern neoliberalism. It explores how religion is always implicated in political formations, as well as how contemporary politics has religious influences and effects. The interconnection between religion and politics is informed by the philosophy of new materialism and set within a planetary context that acknowledges the human role in climate change.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part One: Energy Policies & Material Practices.- Chapter 2: Nature/Culture, Spirit/Matter, and Fuel/Energy: Toward an Energy Critical Materialism.- Chapter 3: A Future No One Wants: Modeling Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and Climate Change with the Marxian Critique of Political Economy.- Part Two: Contesting Populist Nationalism in Religion and Politics.- Chapter 4: Authoritarian Civil Sphere, Populism and Secular Sectarianism.- Chapter 5: Ecological Entanglements: Imagining a Land-Based Judaism.- Chapter 6: Towards a Possibility of a Political Theology at the Limits of Liberal Modernity Following Ambedkar.- Part Three: Political Theology, Energy Sovereignty, and Life.- Chapter 7: The Exuberance of Life: A Note on Schelling s Political Theology.- Chapter 8: Learning to Live by Learning to Die: Energy, Sovereignty, and Transformation in the Thinking of Clayton Crockett.- Chapter 9: Apocalypse, Energy, and Change: Towards a Political theology of Energy.- Part Four: Spiritual-Material Visions Beyond East and West.- Chapter 10: Decoloniality & Planetary Materialism: Supplementing Deleuze s Radical Grammar with the Alterity of Sankhya.- Chapter 11: A Tantric Rejoinder to Energy Humanities and Analytic Idealism.
About the author
Prof. Clayton Crockett is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Central Arkansas, USA
Prof. Saswat Samay Das is Associate Professor of Critical Theory in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Dr. Ananya Roy Pratihar is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Institute of Management and Information Science, Bhubaneswar, India
Summary
This volume addresses the critical role of religion in the world today, and how it is caught up in the transition from modern liberalism to postmodern neoliberalism. It explores how religion is always implicated in political formations, as well as how contemporary politics has religious influences and effects. The interconnection between religion and politics is informed by the philosophy of new materialism and set within a planetary context that acknowledges the human role in climate change.
