Christy Lang Hearlson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4690499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christy Lang Hearlson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christy Lang |
| FAMILY NAME | Hearlson |
| SIGNATURE | HEARLSON C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8246-7664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In the Wake of Fire
“The world is on fire: we know it in our bones and feel it in our hearts.”-REA 2024 Annual Conference Call for Proposals“‘Praise be to you, my Lord.’ In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint
Converting the Imagination through Visual Images in Ecological Religious Education
Global ecological crisis calls for humanity's “ecological conversion,” as well as deconversion from consumerism as a faith system. Conversion involves the imagination, which suggests an important role for visual images in religious education for ecological conversion. Yet educational proposals for deconversion from consumer culture have neglected the potential of the visual image. This essay focuses on two such proposals, from religious educator …
Theological Imagination in a Throwaway Society
This article treats the topic of consumer waste by beginning with a contemporary story that illustrates the reality and complex dynamics of throwaway culture. Noting the dynamic quality of waste, it offers a brief review of the development of throwaway society. Beginning in a preindustrial world in which the battle against “moth and rust” required habits of reuse and repair, or what cultural historian Susan Strasser refers to as bricolage, it the…
The Invention of Clutter and the New Spiritual Discipline of Decluttering
This essay argues that the popular global decluttering movement epitomized in Marie Kondo is a new spiritual discipline tailored to a particular cultural moment in which members of affluent societies, especially women, are caught between the shame of displaying too much “stuff” at home and the guilt of discarding it. After suggesting reasons for the movement’s neglect by theologians, the essay offers a brief history of the “invention of clutter.”…
Educating for Ecological Conversion
Christian universities are obligated by their mission to confront the climate crisis as the pressing existential issue of our time. In his encyclical Laudato Si', Pope Francis calls for the ecological conversion of the church and all of humanity. Ecological conversion entails an existential shift from a relationship with the earth marked by possessive, wasteful consumption to one marked by delight in creation, concern for its suffering, and prese…
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Educating for Ecological Conversion
Christian universities are obligated by their mission to confront the climate crisis as the pressing existential issue of our time. In his encyclical Laudato Si', Pope Francis calls for the ecological conversion of the church and all of humanity. Ecological conversion entails an existential shift from a relationship with the earth marked by possessive, wasteful consumption to one marked by delight in creation, concern for its suffering, and prese…
Converting the Imagination through Visual Images in Ecological Religious Education
Global ecological crisis calls for humanity's “ecological conversion,” as well as deconversion from consumerism as a faith system. Conversion involves the imagination, which suggests an important role for visual images in religious education for ecological conversion. Yet educational proposals for deconversion from consumer culture have neglected the potential of the visual image. This essay focuses on two such proposals, from religious educator …
Theological Imagination in a Throwaway Society
This article treats the topic of consumer waste by beginning with a contemporary story that illustrates the reality and complex dynamics of throwaway culture. Noting the dynamic quality of waste, it offers a brief review of the development of throwaway society. Beginning in a preindustrial world in which the battle against “moth and rust” required habits of reuse and repair, or what cultural historian Susan Strasser refers to as bricolage, it the…
The Invention of Clutter and the New Spiritual Discipline of Decluttering
This essay argues that the popular global decluttering movement epitomized in Marie Kondo is a new spiritual discipline tailored to a particular cultural moment in which members of affluent societies, especially women, are caught between the shame of displaying too much “stuff” at home and the guilt of discarding it. After suggesting reasons for the movement’s neglect by theologians, the essay offers a brief history of the “invention of clutter.”…
In the Wake of Fire
“The world is on fire: we know it in our bones and feel it in our hearts.”-REA 2024 Annual Conference Call for Proposals“‘Praise be to you, my Lord.’ In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint
Aesthetics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Consumerism (2 works) · Ecological crisis (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)