Rewilding Religion for a Primeval Future

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Confucianism as a Form of Immanental Naturalism 15
5. Immanence in Hinduism and Jainism: New Planetary Thinking? 31
6. Mountains Preach the Dharma: Immanence in Mahayana Buddhism 49
7. Africana Sacred Matters: Religious Materialities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas 60
8. We have always been animists . . . 74
9. Indigenous Cosmovisions and a Humanist Perspective on Materialism 88
10. Amorous Entanglements: The Matter of Christian Panentheism 99
11. On the Matter of Hope: Weaving Threads of Jewish Wisdom for the Sake of the Planetary 111
12. Oily Animations: On Protestantism and Petroleum 123
13. Interreligious Approaches to Sustainability Without a Future: Two New Materialist Proposals for Religion and Ecology 136
14. Which Materialism, Whose Planetary Thinking? 148
15. Rewilding Religion for a Primeval Future 161
16. Planetary Thinking, Agency, and Relationality: Religious Naturalism’s Plea 173
17. Dancing Immanence: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming 186
18. The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno 198
19. Emergence Theory and the New Materialisms 210
20. New Materialisms and Planetary Persistence, Purpose, and Politics 222
21. Gut Theology: The Peril and Promise of Political Affect 234
22. The Entangled Relations of Our Ecological Crisis: Religion, Capitalism’s Logics, and New Forms of Planetary Thinking 248
23. Solidarity with Nonhumans: Being Ecological with Object-Oriented Ontology 260
24. Developing a Critical Romantic Religiosity for a Planetary Community 274
25. Matter Values: Ethics and Politics for a Planet in Crisis 289
26. Acknowledgments 303
27. Bibliography 305
28. Contributors 335
29. Index 341