A L Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 53573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A L Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | A L |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6310-5334 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ideas, Activism, and Social Change
This essay explores the roles of ideas in progressive social movements, with special attention to ideas rooted in religion. Religion in part because it plays an important role in many social movements, both faith-based and secular. In addition, examining religion can help us understand the role of ideas in movements more generally, for several reasons. First, attention to religion’s role in social movements underlines the importance of the conten…
Religion and the Possibility of a Materialist Environmental Ethic
In Thinking Like a Mall, Steven Vogel proposes an environmental philosophy “after nature,” meaning one that rejects the division of the world into wild and humanized spaces. This division is false because environments are always constructed by people, who are enmeshed in landscapes and ecological processes. The opposition between wild and humanized parallels the religious division between sacred and profane, according to Vogel. He believes this d…
The Zoological Marx
This essay explores the ways that Marxian categories of alienation, labor, and class can strengthen critiques of human exploitation of other animals. Marxist insights are valuable in particular because they point our attention to the structural dimensions of oppression, which are not always theorized explicitly in mainstream animal ethics. Thinking about animals as a class, with common interests and common suffering, enables us to see suffering a…
Ethics and Human–Animal Relations: Review Essay
Long Journey to Justice: El Salvador, the United States, and Struggles against Empire
On first glance, this seems to be a book about a relatively narrow topic—United States–El Salvador sister city relationships. However, it addresses a host of bigger issues, including theories of human rights, histories of imperialism, and the nature and impact of social movement activism.Sister city relationships began, as Molly Todd explains, as apolitical ways for people in the United States to learn about and get to know communities in other p…
Problem Animals
Nonhuman animals play various roles in environmental ethics, often as charismatic symbols of wilderness or active participants in the natural dramas we seek to preserve. Sometimes, however, nonhuman animals do not fit into—and may even threaten—the “nature” that we value. There are two especially problematic animals: white-tailed deer and feral cats. Together, these creatures shine light on a number of important issues in environmental ethics, in…
Lilian Calles Barger. The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology
The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology “explores how the first generation of liberation theologians built their ideas and recast the relationship between politics and religion” (5). Lilian Calles Barger’s focus is on the ways that liberation theologians understood and transformed the relationship between religion and politics. This goal reflects, and reinforces, her very broad definition of liberation theology far b…
Canine Rescue as a Social Movement: The Politics of Love
Canine rescue is a growing movement that affects the lives of tens of thousands of nonhuman animals and people every year. Rescue is noteworthy not only for its numbers, but also because it challenges common understandings of animal advocacy. Popular accounts often portray work on behalf of animals as sentimental, individualistic, and apolitical. In fact, work on behalf of animals has always been political, in multiple ways. It is characterized b…
Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic, written by Whitney Bauman
Gretel van Wieren: Restored to Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration
Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Introduction: Animals and Nature2. Animals in Environmental Perspective3. Animal Ethics4. Wild Animals5. Domesticated Animals6. The Debate Between Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy 7. Between Animals and Nature: Finding Common Ground8. Being AnimalNotesBibliographyIndex
On Christian Faith in a Warming World
Sallie McFague, A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming , Fortress Press, 2008. Sallie McFague is a Protestant theologian whose many books have focused on understandings of G
Ordinary and Extraordinary Sacrifices
This chapter draws attention to sacrifice in everyday life through its logic and varieties. It further focuses on the religious sacrifices that demarcate extraordinary from everyday sacrifices and the sacrifices that people accept versus those they are conditioned to make as a responsibility. Religions accept and expect sacrifices; there are numerous examples that illustrate everyday and extraordinary sacrifices in secular experience as well as i…
Martyrdom, Sacrifice, and Political Memory in El Salvador
Anna L. Peterson and Brandt G. Peterson Martyrdom, Sacrifice, and Political Memory in El Salvador A MONTH BEFORE H IS DEATH, OSCAR ROMERO, A RCH BISH O P OF SAN Salvador, El Salvador told an interviewer, “If they kill me, I will rise again in the Salvadoran people. . . . May my blood be the seed of free dom and the signal that hope will soon be a reality” (Romero, 1987: 461). Romero was shot through the heart as he said Mass, killed on the order…
Religion and the New Ecology: Environmental Responsibility in a World in Flux
The Left and the Reign of God
This essay explores the resources that religious Utopianism, especially Christian visions of the reign of God, might offer to the project of reclaiming and revising a politically effective left Utopianism. It looks both at various efforts to revise and reclaim Utopian theory and imagery by left analysts today and at the historical experiences of a particular Utopian movement, the Catholic peasant left in Central America. It also critiques the una…
Toward a Materialist Environmental Ethic
Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas
Seeds of the Kingdom explores the utopian religious ethics practiced in Amish settlements in the United States Midwest and in former war zones in El Salvador. These communities stand as a counter-example to dominant trends not only in agriculture and economics, but also in political and religious culture. Residents organize their lives according to social ethics drawn from the Anabaptist and progressive Catholic streams within Western Christianit…
Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection
Nature, God and Humanity: Envisioning an Ethics of Nature
Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground
Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas
Journal Article Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas. Anna L. Peterson, Manuel A. Vásquez, and Philip J. Williams (eds). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001, xii + 259 pp. $60.00 (Cloth), $22.00 (Paper) Get access Kathleen Garces-Foley Kathleen Garces-Foley University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue…
Bioethics and the Rest of the World
Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans
Indigenous Culture and Religion Before and Since the Conquest
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Environmental Ethics and the Social Construction of Nature
The Zoological Marx
This essay explores the ways that Marxian categories of alienation, labor, and class can strengthen critiques of human exploitation of other animals. Marxist insights are valuable in particular because they point our attention to the structural dimensions of oppression, which are not always theorized explicitly in mainstream animal ethics. Thinking about animals as a class, with common interests and common suffering, enables us to see suffering a…
Canine Rescue as a Social Movement: The Politics of Love
Canine rescue is a growing movement that affects the lives of tens of thousands of nonhuman animals and people every year. Rescue is noteworthy not only for its numbers, but also because it challenges common understandings of animal advocacy. Popular accounts often portray work on behalf of animals as sentimental, individualistic, and apolitical. In fact, work on behalf of animals has always been political, in multiple ways. It is characterized b…
Martyrdom, Sacrifice, and Political Memory in El Salvador
Anna L. Peterson and Brandt G. Peterson Martyrdom, Sacrifice, and Political Memory in El Salvador A MONTH BEFORE H IS DEATH, OSCAR ROMERO, A RCH BISH O P OF SAN Salvador, El Salvador told an interviewer, “If they kill me, I will rise again in the Salvadoran people. . . . May my blood be the seed of free dom and the signal that hope will soon be a reality” (Romero, 1987: 461). Romero was shot through the heart as he said Mass, killed on the order…
The Left and the Reign of God
This essay explores the resources that religious Utopianism, especially Christian visions of the reign of God, might offer to the project of reclaiming and revising a politically effective left Utopianism. It looks both at various efforts to revise and reclaim Utopian theory and imagery by left analysts today and at the historical experiences of a particular Utopian movement, the Catholic peasant left in Central America. It also critiques the una…
Toward a Materialist Environmental Ethic
In and Of the World? Christian Theological Anthropology and Environmental Ethics
Thanks to God and the Revolution: Popular Religion and Class Consciousness in the New Nicaragua . Roger N. Lancaster
Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador's Civil War
Religion and Society in Latin America: Ambivalence and Advances
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Varieties of Popular Catholicism: A Parish Study
Just as Latin America is stereotyped as a “Catholic” continent, popular Catholicism in the region is stereotyped as a simple, monolithic set of practices and ideas. These images hide the tremendous diversity and also the tensions that characterize popular Catholicism in Latin America. This essay examines some of the varieties of popular Catholicism through the study of a single parish on the outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador. It focuses on p…
Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives by Philippe Descola and Gisli Palsson, eds
Good Natured: The Origin of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
Environmental Ethics and the Social Construction of Nature
In and Of the World? Christian Theological Anthropology and Environmental Ethics
Recent Studies and Issues in Animal Welfare
Alternatives, traditions, and diversity in agriculture
Indigenous Culture and Religion Before and Since the Conquest
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Living with Nature
Bioethics and the Rest of the World
Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans
Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground
Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas
Journal Article Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas. Anna L. Peterson, Manuel A. Vásquez, and Philip J. Williams (eds). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001, xii + 259 pp. $60.00 (Cloth), $22.00 (Paper) Get access Kathleen Garces-Foley Kathleen Garces-Foley University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 64, Issue…
Nature, God and Humanity: Envisioning an Ethics of Nature
Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas
Seeds of the Kingdom explores the utopian religious ethics practiced in Amish settlements in the United States Midwest and in former war zones in El Salvador. These communities stand as a counter-example to dominant trends not only in agriculture and economics, but also in political and religious culture. Residents organize their lives according to social ethics drawn from the Anabaptist and progressive Catholic streams within Western Christianit…
Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection
The Left and the Reign of God
This essay explores the resources that religious Utopianism, especially Christian visions of the reign of God, might offer to the project of reclaiming and revising a politically effective left Utopianism. It looks both at various efforts to revise and reclaim Utopian theory and imagery by left analysts today and at the historical experiences of a particular Utopian movement, the Catholic peasant left in Central America. It also critiques the una…
Toward a Materialist Environmental Ethic
Religion and the New Ecology: Environmental Responsibility in a World in Flux
Martyrdom, Sacrifice, and Political Memory in El Salvador
Anna L. Peterson and Brandt G. Peterson Martyrdom, Sacrifice, and Political Memory in El Salvador A MONTH BEFORE H IS DEATH, OSCAR ROMERO, A RCH BISH O P OF SAN Salvador, El Salvador told an interviewer, “If they kill me, I will rise again in the Salvadoran people. . . . May my blood be the seed of free dom and the signal that hope will soon be a reality” (Romero, 1987: 461). Romero was shot through the heart as he said Mass, killed on the order…
Ordinary and Extraordinary Sacrifices
This chapter draws attention to sacrifice in everyday life through its logic and varieties. It further focuses on the religious sacrifices that demarcate extraordinary from everyday sacrifices and the sacrifices that people accept versus those they are conditioned to make as a responsibility. Religions accept and expect sacrifices; there are numerous examples that illustrate everyday and extraordinary sacrifices in secular experience as well as i…
On Christian Faith in a Warming World
Sallie McFague, A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming , Fortress Press, 2008. Sallie McFague is a Protestant theologian whose many books have focused on understandings of G
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