Whitney Bauman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1054071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Whitney Bauman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Whitney |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauman |
| SIGNATURE | BAUMAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7489-7517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religion, Decolonization, and the Planetary Community: Voices from the Indonesian Archipelago
Developing Planetary Humanities
If modern Western disciplinary structures, laid forth by Dilthey and others in the 19th century, have helped structure the world in ways that bring about climate change and gross economic inequities (along with many "good" things such as vaccines and some modern comforts), how might we re-structure our thinking and learning in ways that address these violent lacunae? What does it mean to educate in a truly globalized world that is facing climate …
Developing a Critical Romantic Religiosity for a Planetary Community
Developing a Critical Romantic Religiosity for a Planetary Community
Against Method in Science and Religion: Recent Debates on Rationality and Theology
Josh Reeves has written a very accessible and well-argued book for those interested in the field known as “science and religion.” It is a timely book that I would use in conversation with other works that are questioning the continued validity and usefulness of modern Western university disciplines. In a world that is marked by globalization and climate change, and one in which many histories, religions, cultures, and possible futures come into c…
Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking
Indigenous Methodologies, Decolonizing the Academy, and Re‐connecting Stories with Planetary Places
Discussion Forum on Religion and Science Discourse
LISA STENMARK: First, I just want to say hello to everyone.It's lovely to see this many people show up-either this early in the morning or this late at night, depending on where in the world you are.For today's roundtable, we have brought together several scholars who have been active in the science and religion discourse (SRD) and asked them to reflect on the contributions of indigenous and decolonial scholarship both for our respective discipli…
Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking
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. Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and…
Hospitality in an era of pandemics, war, and climate change 1
The Watery Depths of American Environmentalism: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Rachel Carson, and Sylvia Earle
Legacies of American environmentalism are grounded in androcentric and heteronormative narratives that have downplayed significant contributions by women. A re-narration of American Environmentalism detailed through the lives and work of three pioneering women, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Rachel Carson, and Sylvia Earle, provides a new focal perspective on environmental ethics via a deeper, aqua-centric lens, or what we call a ‘water ethic’. For al…
Critical Planetary Romanticism: Ecology, Evolution, and Erotic Thinking
Queer Theory (QT) has expanded since the 1990s beyond critiques of normative understandings of gender and sex, to a broader critique of normative thinking in general. The destabilizing force of QT has been utilized to critique understandings of ‘nature’, highlighting how nature is a historically constructed and changing category. This article puts queer theorists into dialogue with ‘critically romantic’ scientists of the nineteenth and early twen…
Subjectivity, globalization, and climate change
What a drag it is being relational: Developing planetary identities
Feminists scholars, among others, have long argued for a relational understanding of identity and the self. More recently queer theory and the new materialisms have taken that understanding and placed it within an evolutionary and planetary perspective. As most modern, western understandings of law, politics, and ethics take the individual as the base unit for reflection, what might this relational, planetary identity mean in terms of ethics? Thi…
Returning Faith to Knowledge: Earthlings after the Anthropocene
The technologies of the Anthropocene are based upon Modern certainties. These technologies of a reductive and productive model of science create the worlds in which we live, in the image of a particular human being: the modern, western anthropos (with its raced, sexed, and gendered body). This article explores some of the technologies of the Anthropocene, and the environmental and social problems they give rise to. Finally, this article argues fo…
Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty: Wrestling with Wicked Problems
Donna Haraway, 'Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 312 pp., $26.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-8223-6224-1
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature: The Elements
Divided into four parts—Earth, Air, Fire, and Water—this book takes an elemental approach to the study of religion and ecology. It reflects recent theoretical and methodological developments in this field which seek to understand the ways that ideas and matter, minds and bodies exist together within an immanent frame of reference. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature focuses on how these matters materialize in the world around us, there…
Meaningful Flesh: Reflections on Religion and Nature for a Queer Planet
Religion is much queerer than we ever imagined. Nature is as well. These are the two basic insights that have led to this volume: the authors included here hope to queerly go where no thinkers have gone before. The combination of queer theory and religion has been happening for at least 25 years. People such as John Boswell began to examine the history of religious traditions with a queer eye, and soon after we had the indecent theology of Marcel…
Religion, Science, and Nature: Doing without Human Exceptionalism
Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology
Wicked Problems in a Warming World
The Ethics of Wicked Problems
Wicked problems call for more complex thinking than many of our ethical problem-solving traditions are equipped to deal with. Multi-generational, multi-causal problems with no single solution call on us to think ethics in a new way. This article explores three such facets of what it might mean to live through and with climate change and think ethically about such changes. The reality of our planetary problems and lives might better be addressed u…
Incarnating the Unknown: Planetary Technologies for a Planetary Community
This article suggests that current technological development is based upon outdated ways of understanding human beings as "exceptional" to the rest of the natural world. As such, these technologies help serve to reify certain human lives at the expense of others. I argue that such exceptionalism depends upon an understanding of transcendence that is totally other. Using examples such as "Earthrise" and the UN's International Treaty on Outer Space…
Comparative Methods in Spatial Approaches to Religion
Recently, a number of methods for re-thinking ideas as part of the rest of the natural world (including religious ideas and values) have appeared on the religious studies landscape. Notions of emergence theory, new materialisms, and object-oriented ontologies are geared toward thinking about religion and science, ideas and nature, values and matter from within what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call a “single plane” of existence. Others withi…
Climate Weirding and Queering Nature: Getting Beyond the Anthropocene
Though many scientists and scholars of the environmental humanities are referring to the current geological era as the anthropocene, this article argues that there are some problems with this trope and the narrative that emerges from it. First, responsibility for the current era of climate weirding is not shared equally, some humans are way more responsible than others. Second, the claim of the anthropocene works rhetorically to maintain a sense …
Donna Haraway, 'Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 312 pp., $26.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-8223-6224-1
Ecology and Contemporary Christian Theology
This article explores contemporary shifts in eco-theological thinking as they relate to the overall field of 'religion and ecology/nature'. More specifically, this article looks not only at retrieving theological, biblical and ethical resources from Christianity to address contemporary ecological issues, but rather how meaning-making practices are changed in the contemporary context of globalization and global climate change. How does globalizati…
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology
An Invitation to Review
The Eco-Ontology of Social/ist Ecofeminist Thought
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology
Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics
Winner of the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, 2009 This book argues that the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing) sets up a support system for a "logic of domination" toward human and earth others. Conceptually inspired by the work of theologian Catherine Keller and feminist philosopher of the environment Val Plumwood, it follows a genealogical method in examining how the concept of creation out of nothi…
Renewal: Stories from America's Religious-Environmental Movement A Sacred Duty: Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal the World Eating Mercifully
140 Book Reviews / Worldviews 13 (2009) 119-143 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/156853508X394599 Film Reviews Marty Ostrow and Terry Rockefeller. Renewal: Stories from America’s Reli- gious-Environmental Movement (Cambridge, MA: Fine Cut Productions, LLC, 2007). 90 Minutes. Lionel Friedberg. A Sacred Duty: Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal the World (Los Angeles, CA: Jewish Vegetarians of North America, 2007). 59 minutes. Th e…
Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Reconstructing Patristic and Medieval Concepts
Ecology and Contemporary Christian Theology
This article explores contemporary shifts in eco-theological thinking as they relate to the overall field of 'religion and ecology/nature'. More specifically, this article looks not only at retrieving theological, biblical and ethical resources from Christianity to address contemporary ecological issues, but rather how meaning-making practices are changed in the contemporary context of globalization and global climate change. How does globalizati…
Voices of feminist liberation: Writings in celebration of Rosemary Radford Ruether
This collection of writings features two generations of Rosemary Radford Ruethers doctoral students reflecting on her life work from multiple feminist theological perspectives. The book celebrates Ruether in her 75th birthday year as a brilliant pedagogue and as a pioneering and key founder of feminist and eco-feminist theology. Ruethers students autobiographical and critical writings illuminate her genius and groundbreaking work within multi con…
Theological topographies: Multiple methods for planetary theologies
The task of 'doing' ecotheology always already involves multiple perspectives and maps of various terrains. This short essay suggests three 'prolegomena' for doing planetary theology: embracing polydoxy, some form of agnosticism and the transgression of boundaries
Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic
Moving beyond identity politics while continuing to respect diverse entities and concerns, Whitney A. Bauman builds a planetary politics that better responds to the realities of a pluralistic world. Calling attention to the historical, political, and ecological influences shaping our understanding of nature, religion, humanity, and identity, Bauman collapses the boundaries separating male from female, biology from machine, human from more than hu…
Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic
Religion and Science in Dialogue2. Destabilizing Nature: Natura Naturans, Emergence, and Evolution's Rainbow3. Destabilizing Religion: The Death of God, a Viable Agnosticism, and the Embrace of Polydoxy4. Destabilizing Identity: Beyond Identity Solipsism5. The Emergence of Ecoreligious Identities6. Developing Planetary Environmental Ethics: A Nomadic Polyamory of Place7. Challenging Human Exceptionalism: Human Becoming, Technology, Earth Others, …
Disability Studies, Queer Theory, and the New Materialism
Meaning-Making Practices, Copyrights, and Architecture in the Indonesian Archipelago
This article examines the connections between meaning-making practices and how those practices are codified into institutions and structures that shape individual identities. The theoretical and geographical locus of this article is Indonesia where one can be Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Catholic, Protestant, or Confucian, but not outwardly an atheist. In practice, there are a lot of hybrid religious identities, and this is echoed in Indonesia’s econ…
Religion, Ecology, and the Planetary Other: Opening Spaces for Difference
Climate Weirding and Queering Nature: Getting Beyond the Anthropocene
Though many scientists and scholars of the environmental humanities are referring to the current geological era as the anthropocene, this article argues that there are some problems with this trope and the narrative that emerges from it. First, responsibility for the current era of climate weirding is not shared equally, some humans are way more responsible than others. Second, the claim of the anthropocene works rhetorically to maintain a sense …
Comparative Methods in Spatial Approaches to Religion
Recently, a number of methods for re-thinking ideas as part of the rest of the natural world (including religious ideas and values) have appeared on the religious studies landscape. Notions of emergence theory, new materialisms, and object-oriented ontologies are geared toward thinking about religion and science, ideas and nature, values and matter from within what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari call a “single plane” of existence. Others withi…
Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology
Wicked Problems in a Warming World
The Ethics of Wicked Problems
Wicked problems call for more complex thinking than many of our ethical problem-solving traditions are equipped to deal with. Multi-generational, multi-causal problems with no single solution call on us to think ethics in a new way. This article explores three such facets of what it might mean to live through and with climate change and think ethically about such changes. The reality of our planetary problems and lives might better be addressed u…
Incarnating the Unknown: Planetary Technologies for a Planetary Community
This article suggests that current technological development is based upon outdated ways of understanding human beings as "exceptional" to the rest of the natural world. As such, these technologies help serve to reify certain human lives at the expense of others. I argue that such exceptionalism depends upon an understanding of transcendence that is totally other. Using examples such as "Earthrise" and the UN's International Treaty on Outer Space…
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature: The Elements
Divided into four parts—Earth, Air, Fire, and Water—this book takes an elemental approach to the study of religion and ecology. It reflects recent theoretical and methodological developments in this field which seek to understand the ways that ideas and matter, minds and bodies exist together within an immanent frame of reference. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature focuses on how these matters materialize in the world around us, there…
Meaningful Flesh: Reflections on Religion and Nature for a Queer Planet
Religion is much queerer than we ever imagined. Nature is as well. These are the two basic insights that have led to this volume: the authors included here hope to queerly go where no thinkers have gone before. The combination of queer theory and religion has been happening for at least 25 years. People such as John Boswell began to examine the history of religious traditions with a queer eye, and soon after we had the indecent theology of Marcel…
Religion, Science, and Nature: Doing without Human Exceptionalism
Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty: Wrestling with Wicked Problems
Donna Haraway, 'Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 312 pp., $26.95 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-8223-6224-1
Sociology (25 works) · Philosophy (24 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (19 works) · Epistemology (18 works) · Environmental ethics (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works)