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Zusatztext This anthology provides a rich and varied source of readings, which would be a helpful addition to the resources for any course on religion and the natural world. As a collection it does serve well to stimulate thought about how we do – and could – relate meaningfully with the natural world. Informationen zum Autor Laura Hobgood is Professor and holder of the Paden Chair in Religion and Environmental Studies at Southwestern University, USA. She teaches and lectures on animals and religion, religion and nature, the Anthropocene and ecofeminism. Whitney A. Bauman is Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University, USA. He teaches and lectures on science and religion, religion and nature, and religion and queer theory. Zusammenfassung Divided into four parts—Earth, Air, Fire, and Water—this book takes an elemental approach to the study of religion and ecology. It reflects recent theoretical and methodological developments in this field which seek to understand the ways that ideas and matter, minds and bodies exist together within an immanent frame of reference. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature focuses on how these matters materialize in the world around us, thereby addressing key topics in this area of study. The editors provide an extensive introduction to the book, as well as useful introductions to each of its parts. The volume’s international contributors are drawn from the USA, South Africa, Netherlands, Norway, Indonesia, and South Korea, and offer a variety of perspectives, voices, cultural settings, and geographical locales. This handbook shows that human concern and engagement with material existence is present in all sectors of the global community, regardless of religious tradition. It challenges the traditional methodological approach of comparative religion, and argues that globalization renders a comparative religious approach to the environment insufficient. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of ImagesList of Contributors1. Introduction, Laura Hobgood (Southwestern University, USA) and Whitney Bauman (Florida International University, USA) Part One: Earth 2. Backyard Gardens as Sacred Spaces: An Emerging Research Agenda of Africana Spiritual Ecology for Ecowomanist Thought, Elonda Clay (VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 3 . In a Body on Wheels in Touch with the Earth: Cycling as Religion and Response, Laura Hobgood (Southwestern University, USA) 4. Pressure, Gestures: Sacral Work: Bodies Poetics, Bobbi Patterson (Emory University, USA) 5. Blood in The Soil: The Racial, Racist, and Religious Dimensions of Environmentalism, Christopher Carter (University of San Diego, USA) 6. To Eat or Be Eaten? That’s the Question, Ernst Conradie (University of Western Cape, South Africa) Part Two: Air 7: The Personhood of Air: The Ammatoan’s Indigenous Perspective, Samsul Maarif (Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia) 8. Changing Atmospheres of Religion and Nature, Forrest Clingerman (Ohio Northern University, USA) 9. Eco-Dao: An Ecological Theology of the Dao, Heup Young Kim (Kangnam University, South Korea) 10. Remembering the Air: Aesthetic, Ethical, and Spiritual Dimensions of Wind Energy, Lisa Sideris (Indiana University, USA) 11. Conspiring Together: Breathing for Justice, Laurel Kearns (Drew University, USA) Part Three: Fire 12. Recovering/Uncovering Animality, Paul Waldau (Canisius College, USA) 13. Feral Becoming and Environmentalism’s Primal Future, Sarah Pike (California State University, Chico, USA) 14. From Burning Bush and Refiner's Fire to Refinery Fires: Reflections on the Combustive Element of Fire, Marion Grau (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway) 15. Fire, Religion, Nature and Shona Culture, ...
