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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first full-length attempt from within the fields of theological and biblical studies to grapple with “the turn to the animal” currently underway in the humanities, a turn catalyzed in part by the animality theory that has issued from such thinkers as Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway.
Trade Review"An outstanding and important piece of collective scholarship." -- -Mary-Jane Rubenstein Wesleyan University "The claim that non-existence is morally preferable to one that ends in premature abattoir death seems, at the least, debatable. Coming up to date, Stephen Moore's collection Divinanimality goes straight to the intrinsic worth argument - on spiritual and religious grounds. The title (from the French philosopher Jacques Derrida) sees animals collectively as 'radically other' in ways akin to the 'radical otherness' of God, so as to position humans and animals within a shared sphere of mutual respect and care." -Adam Roberts, New Scientist CULTURELAB "This is an excellent volume, written with clarity, precision, and deep feeling for a better understanding of the sacred character of animal beings within the wider natural world." -- -Mark Wallace Swarthmore College
Table of ContentsForeword by Laurel Kearns Acknowledgments Introduction: From Animal Theory to Creaturely Theology Stephen D. Moore Animals, before Me, with Whom I Live, by Whom I Am Addressed: Writing after Derrida Glen A. Mazis The Dogs of Exodus and the Question of the Animal Ken Stone Devouring the Human: Digestion of a Corporeal Soteriology Erika Murphy The Microbes and Pneuma That Therefore I Am Denise Kimber Buell The Apophatic Animal: Toward a Negative Zootheological Imago Dei Jacob J. Erickson The Divinanimality of Lord Sequoia Terra S. Rowe Animal Calls Kate Rigby Little Bird in My Praying Hands: Rainer Maria Rilke and God's Animal Body Beatrice Marovich The Logos of God and the End of Humanity: Giorgio Agamben and the Gospel of John on Animality as Light and Life Eric Daryl Meyer Anzaldua's Animal Abyss: Mestizaje and the Late Ancient Imagination An Yountae and Peter Anthony Mena Daniel's Animal Apocalypse Jennifer L. Koosed and Robert Paul Seesengood Ecotherology Stephen D. Moore And Say the Animal Really Responded: Speaking Animals in the History of Christianity Laura Hobgood-Oster So Many Faces: God, Humans, and Animals Jay McDaniel and J. Aaron Simmons A Spiritual Democracy of All God's Creatures: Ecotheology and the Animals of Lynn White Jr. Matthew T. Riley Epilogue: Animals and Animality: Reflections on the Art of Jan Harrison Jay McDaniel Notes List of Contributors Index
