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This chapter addresses some theoretical and practical issues concerning how social and religious movements might address urgent environmental concerns. Specifically, we advocate a confluence between what has been called the New Materialism and a more specifically Christian movement, Relational Christian Realism. Bringing these two terms together, we suggest, offers fresh insight into some of the most important ecological and political questions we confront. Furthermore, this chapter is the result of a collaboration by two scholars and theologians, one in the United Kingdom and one in the United States, who share viewpoints and perspectives across both countries with implications for other parts of the world.
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See Michael S. Northcott, A Political Theology of Climate Change (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013); Michael S. Northcott and Peter Scott, eds., Systematic Theology and Climate Change: Ecumenical Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2014).
See Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey W. Robbins, Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New Materialism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Manuel A. Vasquez, More than Belief A Materialist Theory of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 5.
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (New York: Picador, 2014).
See Martin Heidegger, “Only a God Can Save Us,” trans. Maria Alter and John D. Caputo, Philosophy Today 20 (1976): 267–284.
Chris Baker, Thomas A. James, and John Reader, A Philosophy of Christian Materialism: Entangled Fidelities and the Public Good (London: Ashgate, 2015).
Bruno Latour, Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 18.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 9.
Whitney A. Bauman, Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), 103.
Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott, Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), 126.
See Graham Harman, The Quadruple Object (Hant, UK: Zero Books, 2011).
Levi Bryant, Onto-Cartography: An Ontology of Machines and Media (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014), 65.
Noëlle Vahanian, “Great Explanation,” in Religion and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New Political Theology, ed. Clayton Crockett (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006), 164, 168.
William Connolly, Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008), Chapter 2.
See Rob Hopkins, The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008).
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Crockett, C., Reader, J. (2016). Ecology and Social Movements. In: Rieger, J., Waggoner, E. (eds) Religious Experience and New Materialism. Radical Theologies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56844-1_4
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