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Suffering and Evil in Nature: Comparative Responses from Ecstatic
Naturalism and Healing Cultures, edited by Joseph E. Harroff and
Jea Sophia Oh, provides many unique experiments in thinking through
the implications of ecstatic naturalism. This collection of essays
directly addresses the importance of values sustaining cultures of
healing and offers a variety of perspectives inducing radical hope
requisite for cultivating moral and political imaginings of
democracy-to-come as a regulative ideal. Through its invocation of
"healing cultures," the collection foregrounds the significance of
the active, gerundive, and processual nature of ecstatic naturalism
as a creative horizon for realizing values of intersubjective
flourishing, while also highlighting the significance of culture as
an always unfinished project of making discursive, interpretive and
ethical space open for the subaltern and voiceless. Each
contribution gives voice to the tensions and contradictions felt by
living participants in emergent communities of
interpretation-namely those who risk replacing authoritarian
tendencies and fascist prejudices with a faith in future-oriented
archetypes of healing to make possible truth and reconciliation
between oppressor and oppressed, victimizers and victims of
violence and trauma. These essays then let loose the radical hope
of healing from suffering in a ceaseless community of communication
within a horizon of creative democratic interpretation.
What does it mean for nature to be sacred? Is anything supernatural
or even unnatural? Nature's Transcendence and Immanence: A
Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism discusses
nature's divinizing process of unfolding and folding through
East-West dialogues and interdisciplinary methodologies. Nature's
selving/god-ing processes are the sacred that is revealed as
nature's transcendent and immanent dimensions. Each chapter of
Nature's Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative
Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism shares a part of nature's
sacred folds that are complexes within nature that have unusual
semiotic density. These discussions serve to help restore a better
relationship to nature as a whole through an innovative combination
of research and ideas from a variety of traditions and disciplines.
This collection not only introduces ecstatic naturalism and deep
pantheism as sacred practices of philosophy and theology, but also
invites a broader audience from a wide range of academic
disciplines such as neuro-psychoanalysis, aesthetics, mythology,
neuroscience, and artificial intelligence (AI).
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