Review
A remarkable volume, given the current debate and eco-crisis.” OR
“Ecospirit is cutting-edge work for just the right moment! Every direction taken in this collection moves the discussion forward in re-theorizing nature, our place in it, and our critical practices. I strongly will use this volume at every opportunity.—–Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary
. . . an inclusive affirmation of the need for and the commitment to change.– “–ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment”
Ecospirit is best described as state-of-the-art in its field. All the essays in Ecospirit start at the cutting edge of the interdisciplinary responses to the ecological crisis and push critical questions about the effectiveness of contemporary scholarship and activism.– “–Comptes rendus”
Essays that offer a theological perspective on the environment and its protection.– “–The Chronicle of Higher Education”
The convenors and editors chose to focus on the relation between environmentalism and post-modernism, an increasingly important engagement for eco-theology.– “–ESSSAT-News”
This wide-ranging volume embraces poetry, interfaith liturgies, ecological readings of biblical and theological texts, and philosophical analyses of our place in the natural world, all in the service of transforming our ecological attitudes and practices.– “–The Christian Century”
This book is a rare combination of intelligence and vision. Its essays
deserve to be read–and reread–by scholars of religion, environmentalists,
students, and anyone who values the sacredness of the earth.
—–Roger S. Gottlieb, author of A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet’s Future and A Spirituality of Resistance; Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Challenging, inspiring, and subversive.—–David Barnhill, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Ecospirit inspires new converstaions and opens fresh avenues of insight contributing to Creation’s healing.—–Norman Wirzba, Georgetown College
Review
The convenors and editors chose to focus on the relation between environmentalism and post-modernism, an increasingly important engagement for eco-theology. ― ―ESSSAT-News
This book is a rare combination of intelligence and vision. Its essays
deserve to be read–and reread–by scholars of religion, environmentalists,
students, and anyone who values the sacredness of the earth.
—―Roger S. Gottlieb, author of A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism andour Planet’s Future and A Spirituality of Resistance; Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Ecospirit is best described as state-of-the-art in its field. All the essays in Ecospirit start at the cutting edge of the interdisciplinary responses to the ecological crisis and push critical questions about the effectiveness of contemporary scholarship and activism. ― ―Comptes rendus
This wide-ranging volume embraces poetry, interfaith liturgies, ecological readings of biblical and theological texts, and philosophical analyses of our place in the natural world, all in the service of transforming our ecological attitudes and practices. ― ―The Christian Century
. . . an inclusive affirmation of the need for and the commitment to change. ― ―ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Ecospirit inspires new converstaions and opens fresh avenues of insight contributing to Creation’s healing.—―Norman Wirzba, Georgetown College
Challenging, inspiring, and subversive.—―David Barnhill, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Essays that offer a theological perspective on the environment and its protection. ― ―The Chronicle of Higher Education
A remarkable volume, given the current debate and eco-crisis.” OR
“Ecospirit is cutting-edge work for just the right moment! Every direction taken in this collection moves the discussion forward in re-theorizing nature, our place in it, and our critical practices. I strongly will use this volume at every opportunity.
—―Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary
About the Author
Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in The Graduate Division of Religion, Drew University. She works amid the tangles of ecosocial, pluralist, feminist philosophy of religion and theology. Her books include Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming; On the Mystery; Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public. She has co-edited several volumes of the Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium, most recently Political Theology on Edge: Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene. Her latest monograph is Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances.
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