Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores the interface of bodies and religion by investigating the impacts human-induced global warming will have on the embodied and performed practices of religion in ecologies of place. By utilizing analytical insights from religion and nature theory, posthumanism, queer ecologies, ecological animisms, indigenous knowledges, material feminisms, and performance studies the book advocates for a need to update how religious studies theorizes bodies and religion. It does so by in the first half of the book advocating for religious studies as a field, and the academy as a whole, to take the ongoing and deleterious future impacts of climate change seriously--to re-member that those laboring as scholars in religious studies, and the communities they study, have always been bodies in material bio-ecological places--and to let this inform the questions religious studies scholars ask. The book argues that this will lead to very different forms of engaged, liberatory scholarship t
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: Where to, Next, in our Bodies, with “Climate Warming?”
Introduction
Part I Theoretical Overview
Chapter 1: Our BioCultural Future--Whither the Environment?: Planetary Regimes and Bodily Immersion
Chapter 2: Evolutionary Antecedents and Meso-level Creativity
Chapter 3: Cultural Narratives and Science
Part II Applied Case Studies
Chapter 4: Liquid Black Death: A Hegemon Ancient and Seductive
Chapter 5: Bodies and Religious Dramaturgy in Places of Climate Chaos
Chapter 6: Regenerative Thrivability and Flourishing—Ladakhi Buddhism in the Age of Climate Change: Constructing Identities and Adaptive Responses
Chapter 7: Post-Materialist Posthuman Dramaturgies and Resilience
Conclusion
Afterword
Coda
