Divinanimality
Subtitle: animal theory, creaturely theology
By: edited by Stephen D. Moore
Edition: First edition.
Series: Transdisciplinary theological colloquia; Transdisciplinary theological colloquia
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780823263196; 9780823263202
Subjects: Religious aspects; Animals; Tiere; Theologie; Ecotheology; Philosophie; Animals (Philosophy)
Description: A turn to the animal is underway in the humanities, most obviously in such fields as philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. One important catalyst for this development has been the remarkable body of animal theory issuing from such thinkers as Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway. What might the resulting interdisciplinary field, commonly termed animality studies, mean for theology, biblical studies, and other cognate disciplines? Is it possible to move from animal theory to creaturely theology? This volume is the first full-length attempt to grapple centrally with these questions. It attempts to triangulate philosophical and theoretical reflections on animality and humanity with theological reflections on divinity. If the animal human distinction is being rethought and retheorized as never before, then the animal human divine distinctions need to be rethought, retheorized, and retheologized along with it. This is the task that the multidisciplinary team of theologians, biblical scholars, philosophers, and historians assembled in this volume collectively undertakes. They do so frequently with recourse to Derrida's animal philosophy and also with recourse to an eclectic range of other relevant thinkers, such as Haraway, Giorgio Agamben, Emmanuel Levinas, Gloria Anzaldua, Helene Cixous, A.N. Whitehead, and Lynn White Jr. The result is a volume that will be essential reading for religious studies audiences interested in ecological issues, animality studies, and posthumanism, as well as for animality studies audiences interested in how constructions of the divine have informed constructions of the nonhuman animal through history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Animals, before Me, with Whom I Live, by Whom I Am Addressed: Writing after Derrida  -- Glen A. Mazis; title: The Dogs of Exodus and the Question of the Animal  -- Ken Stone; title: Devouring the Human: Digestion of a Corporeal Soteriology  -- Erika Murphy; title: The Microbes and Pneuma That Therefore I Am  -- Denise Kimber Buell; title: The Apophatic Animal: Toward a Negative Zootheological Imago Dei  -- Jacob J. Erickson; title: The Divinanimality of Lord Sequoia  -- Terra S. Rowe; title: Animal Calls  -- Kate Rigby; title: Little Bird in My Praying Hands: Rainer Maria Rilke and God's Animal Body  -- Beatrice Marovich; title: 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; title: Anzaldua's Animal Abyss: Mestizaje and the Late Ancient Imagination  -- Peter Anthony Mena; title: Daniel's Animal Apocalypse  -- Robert Paul Seesengood; title: Ecotherology  -- Stephen D. Moore; title: And Say the Animal Really Responded: Speaking Animals in the History of Christianity  -- Laura Hobgood-Oster; title: So Many Faces: God, Humans, and Animals  -- J. Aaron Simmons; title: A Spiritual Democracy of All God's Creatures: Ecotheology and the Animals of Lynn White Jr. -- Matthew T. Riley.