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Political Theology of the Earth - Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public (Hardcover)
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Political Theology of the Earth - Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public (Hardcover)
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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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.
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