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"In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means--and how we take steps to get there. The uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small, were the match that lit the spark of the largest protest movement in US history, a historic uprising against racism and the politics of disposability that the Covid-19 pandemic lays bare. In this urgent and incisive collection of new interviews bookended by two new essays, Marc Lamont Hill critically examines the "pre-existing conditions" that have led us to this moment of crisis and upheaval, guiding us through both the perils and possibilities, and helping us imagine an abolitionist future."--Barnesandnoble.com

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Karen Bray, Heather Eaton, and Whitney Bauman -- Confucianism as a Form of Immanental Naturalism: Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Immanence in Hinduism and Jainism: New Planetary Thinking?: Christopher Key Chapple -- Mountains Preach the Dharma: Immanence in Mahāyāna Buddhism: Christopher Ives -- Africana Sacred Matters: Religious Materialities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas: Elana Jefferson-Tatum -- We have always been animists . . . : Graham Harvey -- Indigenous Cosmovisions and a Humanist Perspective on Materialism: John Grim -- Amorous Entanglements: The Matter of Christian Panentheism: Catherine Keller -- On the Matter of Hope: Weaving Threads of Jewish Wisdom for the Sake of the Planetary: O'neil Van Horn -- Oily Animations: On Protestantism and Petroleum: Terra Schwerin Rowe -- Interreligious Approaches to Sustainability Without a Future: Two New Materialist Proposals for Religion and Ecology: Kevin Minister -- Which Materialism, Whose Planetary Thinking?: Joerg Rieger -- Rewilding Religion for a Primeval Future: Sarah M. Pike -- Planetary Thinking, Agency, and Relationality: Religious Naturalism's Plea: Carol Wayne White -- Dancing Immanence: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming: Kimerer L. LaMothe -- The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno: Mary-Jane Rubenstein -- Emergence Theory and the New Materialisms: Kevin Schilbrack -- New Materialisms and Planetary Persistence, Purpose, and Politics: Heather Eaton -- Gut Theology: The Peril and Promise of Political Affect: Karen Bray -- The Entangled Relations of Our Ecological Crisis: Religion, Capitalism's Logics, and New Forms of Planetary Thinking: Matthew R. Hartman -- Solidarity with Nonhumans: Being Ecological with Object-Oriented Ontology: Sam Mickey.

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human beings, animals, and the rest of the natural world and the subsequent technologies built on those understandings have thrown us into an array of social and ecological crises with planetary implications. In Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking, we argue that more immanent or planetary ways of thinking and acting have great potential for re-thinking human-technology-animal-earth relationships and for addressing problems of global climate weirding and other forms of ecological degradation. Older and often marginalized forms of thought from animisms, shamanisms, and other religious traditions are joined by more recent forms of thinking with immanence such as the universe story, process thought, emergence theory, the new materialisms (NM's), object-oriented ontologies (OOO's), affect theory, and queer theory. This book maps out some of the connections and differences between immanent frameworks to provide some eco-intellectual commons for thinking within the planetary community, with a particular emphasis on making connections between more recent theories and older ideas of immanence found in many of the world's religious traditions. The authors in this volume met and worked together over five years, so the resulting volume reveals sustained and multifaceted perspectives on "thinking and acting with the planet."