Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical—that
the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is
the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion
is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity might be
material, mutable, and multiple. Since the excommunication of
Baruch Spinoza, Western thought has therefore demonized what it
calls pantheism, accusing it of incoherence, absurdity, and—with
striking regularity—monstrosity. In this book, Mary-Jane
Rubenstein investigates this perennial repugnance through a
conceptual genealogy of pantheisms. What makes pantheism
“monstrous”—at once repellent and seductive—is that it
scrambles the raced and gendered distinctions that Western
philosophy and theology insist on drawing between activity and
passivity, spirit and matter, animacy and inanimacy, and creator
and created. By rejecting the fundamental difference between God
and world, pantheism threatens all the other oppositions that stem
from it: light versus darkness, male versus female, and humans
versus every other organism. If the panic over pantheism has to do
with a fear of crossed boundaries and demolished hierarchies, then
the question becomes what a present-day pantheism might disrupt and
what it might reconfigure. Cobbling together heterogeneous
sources—medieval heresies, their pre- and anti-Socratic
forebears, general relativity, quantum mechanics, nonlinear
biologies, multiverse and indigenous cosmologies, ecofeminism,
animal and vegetal studies, and new and old
materialisms—Rubenstein assembles possible pluralist pantheisms.
By mobilizing this monstrous mixture of unintentional God-worlds,
Pantheologies gives an old heresy the chance to renew our thinking.
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