George B. Handley

Literature and Ecotheology (eBook, PDF)

From Chaos to Cosmos

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology. It will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers interested in ecotheology, religious studies, environmental literature, the environmental humanities, and environmental studies more broadly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040102763
• Artikelnr.: 72272821

Autorenporträt

George B. Handley is a Professor of Comparative Literature and the Director of Global Environmental Studies at Brigham Young University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Why Ecocriticism Needs to Get Religion 1. Literature and Ecotheology 2. Literature as Ecotheology 3. Literature as Theodicy PART II: Literary Theodicy in Four Contemporary Examples 4. The Duality of Cosmos in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 5. The Tale as Cosmos in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing 6. Imagination as Cosmos in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping 7. Syncretism as Cosmos in David James Duncan's Sun House

Rezensionen

"George Handley's wise and generous book urges scientists and artists, political activists and Christians, ecocritics and ecotheologians, to recognize their mutual need, and he proposes imaginative literature as a locus where those who often find themselves at loggerheads might instead cultivate common ground. His perceptive argument exemplifies how personal convictions can inspire rigorous scholarship that illuminates fraught public discourse and helps us imagine ways of caring for damaged communities and places."

Jeffrey Bilbro, Associate Professor of English at Grove City College, USA

"A thought-provoking book full of deep insights into the finite transcendence of the natural world. While ecological science today is predominately materialist in approach, Handley's 'ecotheology' looks to literature to give voice to the stifled spiritual forces that underlie our environmental anxieties. It makes a lucid case for the pressing need to re-sacralize our relation to nature in its terrestrial as well as cosmic reaches."

Robert Pogue Harrison, author of Forests: The Shadow of Civilization

"George Handley calls for an end to culture wars that pit secular environmental scholars against ecotheology. The power of environmental literature evokes the transcendence of ecotheology, just as ecotheology needs the earthly grounding of ecocriticism. Both aspire to transform chaos and meaninglessness into hope and moral action. It is time ecocritics got religion!"

Lisa H. Sideris, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA