Ecologies of participation
Subtitle: agents, shamans, mystics, and diviners
By: Zayin Cabot
Series: Postcolonial and decolonial studies in religion and theology; Postcolonial and decolonial studies in religion and theology
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781498568159; 9781498568173; 9781498568166
Subjects: Religions; Methodology; Study and teaching; Comparative studies; Religion; Participation
Description: "In this daring debut, Zayin Cabot challenges the wise homebodies of academia. A profoundly interdisciplinary approach to comparative scholarship, Ecologies of Participation offers a methodology whereby we can face our shared planetary predicament. It is grounded in process philosophy, and asserts the importance of a new ontology of agency. It traces the importance of Lévy-Bruhl and Lévi-Strauss&#x2019;s early work, while offering new insight into the ontological turn in anthropology. This book sets out to destabilize modern reductionist trends toward scientific materialism, without falling into postmodern cultural constructivism. It does not assume the givenness of nature or culture. By advancing a multi-ontology approach, this work offers robust interventions into decolonial and critical studies. Cabot takes contemporary scholarship in new and exciting directions&#x2014;offering an unstable ground from which to examine our shared worlds, both human and other. Throughout the last chapters of the book, these threads are illuminated through a detailed ethics of comparison and participation." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Participatory philosophia and our planetary predicament; title: Decolonial mutations; title: Whitehead, creativity, and agential functions; title: A participatory raft; title: Ecologizing language: a neo-Whorfian agential approach; title: Agential bricolage: a neostructuralist hunch; title: Agential participation: toward freedom and concern; title: Participatory knowing, ecologizing ethics; title: Mystics, mutants, and co-authored gods; title: Shamanic perspectivism and comparative method; title: Talismanic thinking as comparative method; title: A guest protocol.