Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction: Grounding Theory—Earth in Religion and Philosophy 1
5. ECOGROUNDS: LANGUAGE, MATRIX , PRACTICE
6. Ecotheology and World Religions 21
7. Talking the Walk: A Practice-Based Environmental Ethic as Grounds for Hope 45
8. Talking Dirty: Ground Is Not Foundation 63
9. Ecofeminist Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics: A Comparative View 77
10. ECONATURES: SCIENCE , FAITH, PHILOSOPHY
11. Cooking the Truth: Faith, Science, the Market, and Global Warming 97
12. Ecospirituality and the Blurred Boundaries of Humans, Animals, and Machines 125
13. Getting Over ‘‘Nature’’: Modern Bifurcations, Postmodern Possibilities 156
14. Toward an Ethics of Biodiversity: Science and Theology in Environmentalist Dialogue 178
15. Indigenous Knowing and Responsible Life in the World 196
16. ECONSTRUCTIONS: THEORY AND THEOLOGY
17. The Preoriginal Gift—and Our Response to It 217
18. Prometheus Redeemed? From Autoconstruction to Ecopoetics 233
19. Toward a Deleuze-Guattarian Micropneumatology of Spirit- Dust 252
20. Specters of Derrida: On the Way to Econstruction 264
21. ECODOCTRINES: SPIRIT, CREATION, ATONEMENT, ESCHATON
22. Sacred-Land Theology: Green Spirit, Deconstruction, and the Question of Idolatry in Contemporary Earthen Christianity 291
23. Grounding the Spirit: An Ecofeminist Pneumatology 315
24. Hearing the Outcry of Mute Things: Toward a Jewish Creation Theology 337
25. Creatio ex Nihilo, Terra Nullius, and the Erasure of Presence 353
26. Surrogate Suffering: Paradigms of Sin, Salvation, and Sacrifice Within the Vivisection Movement 373
27. The Hope of the Earth: A Process Ecoeschatology for South Korea 392
28. ECOSPACES: DESECRATION, SACRALITY, PLACE
29. Restoring Earth, Restored to Earth: Toward an Ethic for Reinhabiting Place 415
30. Caribou and Carbon Colonialism: Toward a Theology of Arctic Place 433
31. Divining New Orleans: Invoking Wisdom for the Redemption of Place 454
32. Constructing Nature at a Chapel in the Woods 468
33. Felling Sacred Groves: Appropriation of a Christian Tradition for Antienvironmentalism 483
34. ECOHOPES: ENACTMENTS, POETICS, LITURGICS
35. Ethics and Ecology: A Primary Challenge of the Dialogue of Civilizations 495
36. Religion and the Earth on the Ground: The Experience of GreenFaith in New Jersey 504
37. Cries of Creation, Ground for Hope: Faith, Justice, and the Earth Interfaith Worship Service 517
38. The Firm Ground for Hope: A Ritual for Planting Humans and Trees 531
39. Musings from White Rock Lake: Poems 536
40. Notes 543
41. Contributors 637