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"We are in the midst of a new space race that pairs billionaire space barons with governments in an effort to exploit the cosmos for human gain. While Elon Musk and SpaceX work to establish a human presence on Mars, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin work toward mining operations on the moon, missions to asteroids to extract resources, and millions of people living in rotating near-Earth satellite dwellings. Despite the differences in their visions, these two billionaires share a core utopian project: the salvation of humanity though the colonization of space. But we have already seen the destructive effects of this frontier spirit in the centuries-long history of European colonialism. Philosopher of religion and space enthusiast Mary-Jane Rubenstein wants to pull back the curtain on the not-so-new myths these space barons are peddling. In Astrotopia, she explains why these myths are so problematic and offers a vision for how we might approach the exploration of space in ways that don't reproduce the atrocities of humanity's previous colonial endeavors"

Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic ""wonder"" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be extinguished as swiftly as possible. By endeavoring to resolve wonder's indeterminacy into certainty and calculability, philosophy paradoxically secures itself at the expense of its own condition of possibility. Strange Wonder locates a reopening of wonder's primordial uncertainty in the work of Martin H

In the ten years since the publication of Michael Hardt's & Antonio Negri's Empire, the relationship between Christianity & global capital has received increasing theological attention among the adherents, critics, sympathizers, & apostates of Radical Orthodoxy. At stake in this conversation is the possibility that Christianity might provide a universal ontology sufficient to ground a counter-hegemonic, specifically socialist, praxis. One question that many of these authors rarely address, however, is the extent to which Christian universalism has been responsible for the emergence of global capital in the first place. This article will address this profound split at the heart of a tradition; that is, Christianity's culpability for & resistance to global capital. To this end, "Capital Shares" sketches the aporia of Christianity's relation to Empire & then appeals to Jean-Luc Nancy's "deconstruction of Christianity"; in particular, his attempt to find "a source of Christianity, more original than Christianity itself, that might provoke another possibility to arise.". Adapted from the source document.

At this point, it would be a considerable accomplishment not to be aware that there is something very strange going on in the Anglican Communion. Nearly every day brings fresh stories of increasingly complicated ecclesiastical warfare: Nigerian bishops in Virginia, Ugandan churches in California, same-sex blessings in Canada, threats of schism, charges of heresy-and perhaps you've heard about the gay bishop in New Hampshire? Adapted from the source document.

Machine generated contents note:MATTER, ANEW --What Flashes Up: Theological-Political-Scientific Fragments /Karen Barad --Vegetal Life and Onto-Sympathy /Jane Bennett --Tingles of Matter, Tangles of Theology /Catherine Keller --Agents Matter and Matter Agents: Interpretation and Value from Cells to Gaia /Elizabeth Singleton --THE MATTER OF RELIGION --The Matter with Pantheism: On Shepherds and Goat-Gods and Mountains and Monsters /Mary-Jane Rubenstein --Material Subjects, Immaterial Bodies: Abhinavagupta's Panentheist Matter /Loriliai Biernacki --Theophanic Materiality: Political Ecology, Inhuman Touch, and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy /Jacob J. Erickson --Interdisciplinary Ethics: From Astro-Theology to Cosmo-Liberation Theology /Theodore Walker Jr. --Vascularizing the Study of Religion: Multi-Agent Figurations and Cosmopolitics /Manuel A. Vasquez --ETHICOPOLITICAL ENTANGLEMENTS --Stubborn Materiality: African American Religious Naturalism and Becoming Our Humanity /Carol Wayne White --Grace in Intra-action: Complementarity and the Noncircular Gift /Terra S. Rowe --The Door of No Return: An Africana Reading of Complexity /Elias Ortega-Aponte --The Trouble with Commonality: Theology, Evolutionary Theory, and Creaturely Kinship /Beatrice Marovich.

This collection examines the intersections of religion and "new" materialisms. Calling upon an interdisciplinary throng of scholars in science studies, religious studies, and theology, it assembles a multiplicity of experimental perspectives on materiality: what is matter, how does it materialize, and what sort of worlds are enacted in its varied entanglements with divinity?

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Tangled Matters -- What Flashes Up: Theological-Political-Scientific Fragments -- Vegetal Life and Onto-Sympathy -- Tingles of Matter, Tangles of Theology -- Agents Matter and Matter Agents: Interpretation and Value from Cells to Gaia -- The Matter with Pantheism: On Shepherds and Goat-Gods and Mountains and Monsters -- Material Subjects, Immaterial Bodies: Abhinavagupta's Panentheist Matter -- Theophanic Materiality: Political Ecology, Inhuman Touch, and the Art of Andy Goldsworthy -- Interdisciplinary Ethics: From Astro-Theology to Cosmo-Liberation Theology -- Vascularizing the Study of Religion: Multi-Agent Figurations and Cosmopolitics -- Stubborn Materiality: African American Religious Naturalism and Becoming Our Humanity -- Grace in Intra-action: Complementarity and the Noncircular Gift -- The Door of No Return: An Africana Reading of Complexity -- The Trouble with Commonality: Theology, Evolutionary Theory, and Creaturely Kinship -- List of Contributors -- TRANSDISCIPLINARY THEOLOGICAL COLLOQUIA

Thoughtful essays to revive dialogue about atheism beyond belief. The Varieties of Atheism reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. In fact, contributors contend that narrowly defining atheism as the belief that there is no god misunderstands religious and nonreligious persons altogether. The essays show that, just as religion exceeds doctrine, atheism also encompasses every dimension of human life: from imagination and feeling to community and ethics. Contributors offer new, expansive perspectives on atheism's diverse history and possible futures. By recovering lines of affinity and tension between particular atheists and particular religious traditions, this book paves the way for fruitful conversation between religious and non-religious people in our secular age

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."

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- part 1 Revolution and Theological Difference -- Tragedy and Revolution -- Metanoia: The Theological Praxis of Revolution -- The ''Thrilling Romance of Orthodoxy'' -- Nothing Is, Something Must Be: Lacan and Creation from No One -- Revelation and Revolution -- part 2 Ontology, Capital, and Kingdom -- Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology -- Neither Servility nor Sovereignty: Between Metaphysics and Politics -- Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money -- Only Jesus Saves: Toward a Theopolitical Ontology of Judgment -- part 3 Infinite Desire and the Political Subject -- The Political Subject and Absolute Immanence -- Rewriting the Ontological Script of Liberation: On the Question of Finding a New Kind of Political Subject -- Ecclesia: The Art of the Virtual -- The Univocalist Mode of Production -- part 4 Reenchanting the Political beyond Ontotheology -- The Commodification of Religion, or The Consummation of Capitalism -- The UnbearableWithness of Being: On the Essentialist Blind Spot of Anti-ontotheology -- ''To Cut Too Deeply and Not Enough'': Violence and the Incorporeal -- The Two Sources of the ''Theological Machine'': Jacques Derrida and Henri Bergson on Religion, Technicity, War, and Terror -- part 5 Theological Materialism -- Materialism and Transcendence -- Truth and Peace: Theology and the Body Politic in Augustine and Hobbes -- The Politics of the Eye: Toward a Theological Materialism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index