World Christianity and Ecological Theologies

World Christianity and Ecological Theologies invites scholars in religious studies and theology from different continents and contexts to a North-South dialogue on environmental ethics, political ecology, and ecofeminism. Throughout the global pandemic, the connection between environmental rapacity, religion, and political interests has once again called scholarly attention to the important conversation on public religion and global environment-related issues. Acknowledging a deficit among scholars of World Christianity in addressing environmental concerns and the field's limited language for framing those concerns, this book aims to bring the fields of study of World Christianity, religion, and ecology into a sustained conversation, with the goal of expanding the theoretical horizons of these fields.

World Christianity and Ecological Theologies reiterates that all Christian theologies are contextual, as they shape and are shaped by specific historical and cultural circumstances. It aims at showcasing the ways in which the intersection of religion and ecology is approached by scholars in religious studies and theology in the Global South or by those in conversation with them in the Global North, pointing to what can be generated if these bodies of scholarship are engaged as dialogue partners to investigate new patterns of religious environmentalism.

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World Christianity and Ecological Theologies

World Christianity and Ecological Theologies invites scholars in religious studies and theology from different continents and contexts to a North-South dialogue on environmental ethics, political ecology, and ecofeminism. Throughout the global pandemic, the connection between environmental rapacity, religion, and political interests has once again called scholarly attention to the important conversation on public religion and global environment-related issues. Acknowledging a deficit among scholars of World Christianity in addressing environmental concerns and the field's limited language for framing those concerns, this book aims to bring the fields of study of World Christianity, religion, and ecology into a sustained conversation, with the goal of expanding the theoretical horizons of these fields.

World Christianity and Ecological Theologies reiterates that all Christian theologies are contextual, as they shape and are shaped by specific historical and cultural circumstances. It aims at showcasing the ways in which the intersection of religion and ecology is approached by scholars in religious studies and theology in the Global South or by those in conversation with them in the Global North, pointing to what can be generated if these bodies of scholarship are engaged as dialogue partners to investigate new patterns of religious environmentalism.

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World Christianity and Ecological Theologies invites scholars in religious studies and theology from different continents and contexts to a North-South dialogue on environmental ethics, political ecology, and ecofeminism. Throughout the global pandemic, the connection between environmental rapacity, religion, and political interests has once again called scholarly attention to the important conversation on public religion and global environment-related issues. Acknowledging a deficit among scholars of World Christianity in addressing environmental concerns and the field's limited language for framing those concerns, this book aims to bring the fields of study of World Christianity, religion, and ecology into a sustained conversation, with the goal of expanding the theoretical horizons of these fields.

World Christianity and Ecological Theologies reiterates that all Christian theologies are contextual, as they shape and are shaped by specific historical and cultural circumstances. It aims at showcasing the ways in which the intersection of religion and ecology is approached by scholars in religious studies and theology in the Global South or by those in conversation with them in the Global North, pointing to what can be generated if these bodies of scholarship are engaged as dialogue partners to investigate new patterns of religious environmentalism.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798889831204
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 10/22/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 338
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. is associate professor of World Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the editor of the Fortress Press series World Christianity and Public Religion. His most recent book is Protesting Poverty: Protestants, Social Ethics, and the Poor in Brazil (Baylor University Press, 2023).

Table of Contents

Introduction: World Christianity and Ecological Theologies

Raimundo Barreto, Wanderley Pereira da Rosa, Graham McGeoch

Part One: Focal Essays: An Invitation for Ecological Engagement and Dialogue

Chapter 1: Ecology as the Capacity for Love

Jurgen Moltmann

Chapter 2: Interdependence, Christianity and Environmental Crisis

Ivone Gebara

Part Two: A Roadmap for the Conversation

Chapter 3: The North/South Divide in Contemporary Christian Ecotheology: South Africa as a Case Study

Ernst Conradie

Chapter 4: Mother Earth, Mother Africa: African Ecofeminist Voices

Sue Rakoczy

Chapter 5: Seeking a Morally Viable Response to Climate Injustice Informed by Voices from its Underside

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda

Chapter 6: "For the life of the world": Insights from the eco-praxis and eco-theology of Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Nikolaos Asproulis

Part Three: Sampling Ecotheological Concerns in Distinct Contexts and Christian Traditions

Chapter 7: In Solidarity with "Mother Earth". African Christianity and the Love of God in the Context of a Degraded Earth

Golo Ben Willie Kwaku

Chapter 8: Human Uniqueness, Divine Interrelationality, and the Hope of Ecofeminist Theology

Ruben Rosário- Rodriguez

Chapter 9: World Christianity and Ecology: Ecowomanism

Melanie Harris

Chapter 10: Embracing Life and Cultivating Hope: The Ecological Dimension of Liberation Theology

Luis Martínez Andrade

Chapter 11: Hearing the Words of Creatures: Traditional Sources of Knowledge of Creation in Orthodox Christianity

Elizabeth Theokritoff

Part Four: Earth-Keeping Approaches from the Global South

Chapter 12: Ecology testifies to Religiosity: Observations from Oceania

Jione Havea

Chapter 13: Two Million Trees Planted: The Green Reformation and Ghana's Church of Pentecost

David D. Daniels III

Chapter 14: An Asian Eco-Spirituality

Kwangsun Choi

Chapter 15: Christianity in Abya Yala: Motherland, Sustainability and Ecocide

Yenny Delgado-Qullaw

Bibliography

Index

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