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1 online resource (x, 229 pages). |
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gdr Women |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture
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Insurrections.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Beginning -- 1. Political : sovereign exception or collective inception -- 2. Earth : climate of closure, matter of disclosure -- 3. Theology : "unknow better now" -- Apophatic afterword. |
| Summary |
Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pretense of mastery over it. But how can we confront climate change when political crises keep exploding in the present? Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the feedback loop of political and ecological depredation as secularized apocalypse. Carl Schmitt's political theology of the sovereign exception sheds light on present ideological warfare; racial, ethnic, economic, and sexual conflict; and hubristic anthropocentrism. If the politics of exceptionalism are theological in origin, she asks, should we not enlist the world's religious communities as part of the resistance? Keller calls for dissolving the opposition between the religious and the secular in favor of a broad planetary movement for social and ecological justice. When we are confronted by populist, authoritarian right wings founded on white male Christian supremacism, we can counter with a messianically charged, often unspoken theology of the now-moment, calling for a complex new public. Such a political theology of the earth activates the world's entangled populations, joined in solidarity and committed to revolutionary solutions to the entwined crises of the Anthropocene. |
| Biography |
Catherine Keller is professor of constructive theology at the Theological School of Drew University. Her books include Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement (Columbia, 2014). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Political theology.
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Political theology. |
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Public theology.
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Public theology. |
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Religion and politics.
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Religion and politics. |
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Ecology -- Religious aspects.
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Ecology -- Religious aspects. |
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Ecology -- Political aspects.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies. |
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Ecology -- Political aspects. |
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. |
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Ecology. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Keller, Catherine, 1953- Political theology of the earth. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] 9780231189903 (DLC) 2018024685 (OCoLC)1035464947 |
| ISBN |
9780231548618 (electronic book) |
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0231548613 (electronic book) |
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9780231189903 (hardcover) |
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9780231189910 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.7312/kell18990 |
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