Willis Jenkins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 630295 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Willis Jenkins |
| PRENOMES | Willis |
| SOBRENOME | Jenkins |
| ASSINATURA | JENKINS W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0471-5524 |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Migrations of the Sacred
What can the study of religion illuminate about the possibilities of value transformation amidst the dwindling of extinctions and dislocations of climate crisis? This essay emerges from collaborative research on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Off the Atlantic side of the Eastern Shore peninsula lies a barrier island system known as the Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR). The fifty-mile string of islands is a UNESCO Biosphere Site and the focus of a U.S. Nat…
Multidisciplinary Reflections on an Active Layer/Permafrost Core in Boreal Alaska
Extinction and Religion
Ethics after Humanity
Can humanity survive climate change and mass extinction? Concepts of humanity assumed or implicit in the field at the founding of this journal are under critical pressure from multiple directions. Reading across schools of thought confronting relations sometimes called Anthropocene, this essay explains five tasks for religious ethics “after humanity:” (i) incorporate species‐level relations of power and vulnerability; (ii) denaturalize planetary …
Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith
Did “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” the Jonathan Edwards sermon often studied as spark of the eighteenth-century Great Awakening, have such effect upon its audience because two years of unusually cold weather had rendered them anxious and excitable? Did Islam spread so quickly because a seventh-century volcanic eruption had depressed agriculture, thereby fatally weakening political powers across the regions it conquered? Did Mormonism acc…
Coastal Futures Conservatory
This article develops an account of listening as a model for integrating inquiries into rapid environmental change from arts, sciences, and humanities. The account is structured around interpretation of the Coastal Futures Conservatory (CFC), an initiative for integrating arts and humanities into the Long-Term Ecological Research Project at the Virginia Coast Reserve. The CFC organizes collaborative inquiry and public engagement around several ki…
Covid‐19 and Religious Ethics
The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID‐19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics
Sacred Places and Planetary Stresses
How are global relations and planetary flows experienced, interpreted, and managed from places set aside from everyday use, as "sacred" in that sense? Sanctuary Lab, a transdisciplinary initiative at UVA, investigates how religious processes interact with planetary stresses. Provisionally adopting a keyword in religious studies, the sacred, opens a post-disciplinary angle of inquiry into Anthropocene processes of cultural and environmental change…
Religion and Climate Change
Understanding the cultural dimensions of climate change requires understanding its religious aspects. Insofar as climate change is entangled with humans, it is also entangled with all the ways in which religion attends human ways of being. Scholarship on the connections between religion and climate change includes social science research into how religious identity figures in attitudes toward climate change, confessional and constructive engageme…
The Mysterious Silence of Mother Earth in Laudato Si
Laudato si' attempts simultaneously to disrupt prevailing global environmental discourse and to reorient central concepts in Catholic moral tradition by requalifying the meaning of dominion and by ecologically expanding human dignity. The image of Earth crying out to humans from within a kinship relation plays a central role in both arguments. However, the political consequences of those shifts remain vague because the “voice” of Earth remains si…
Introduction to Focus Issue on Laudato Si
The encyclical Laudato si’ can be read as a religious ethic in several different ways. Contributors to this focus issue read it as magisterial teaching, as environmental thought, as Global South criticism, as Latinx theology, and as philosophy of religion. Foregrounding South American and Latinx receptions, the cumulative argument of this focus issue is that LS represents a cultural event that invites interpretations from contexts and disciplines…
Feasts of the Anthropocene
The discipline of religious studies often misses how climate change drives shifts across its domains of interpretation by treating it as a special object. This essay depicts how cultural stress from anthropogenic changes in planetary systems may be illuminated through what cultures and movements are doing with food and argues that it makes sense to interpret some of those gastronomic functions with religious analyses. Insofar as food movements at…
Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology
The Turn to Virtue in Climate Ethics
The Future of Ethics
"The Future of Ethics interprets the big questions of sustainability and social justice through the practical problems arising from humanity's increasing power over basic systems of life. What does climate change mean for our obligations to future generations? How can the sciences work with pluralist cultures in ways that will help societies learn from ecological change?Traditional religious ethics examines texts and traditions and highlights pri…
After Lynn White
The fields of environmental ethics and of religion and ecology have been shaped by Lynn White Jr.'s thesis that the roots of ecological crisis lie in religious cosmology. Independent critical movements in both fields, however, now question this methodological legacy and argue for alternative ways of inquiry. For religious ethics, the twin controversies cast doubt on prevailing ways of connecting environmental problems to religious deliberations b…
Global Ethics, Christian Theology, and the Challenge of Sustainability
This paper considers how theology confronts sustainability as a global problem, and what that confrontation can contribute to the challenge of global ethics. After reviewing major models of religious engagement with global ethics, I argue for an analogical conception in which Christian social practices generate moral patterns with the capacity to meet the integrative challenge of global ethics. Theological reflection on those practices then helps…
Sustainability and Religion
Ecologies of Grace
Only recently have theologians begun to think and write about the ecological crisis in a focused manner. It is clear, however that people of faith must come to grips with that crisis and find a way of thinking about it in the context of their beliefs. This book offers an introduction to Christian environemntal ethics
The Landscape of Reform
A Greener Faith
Roger Gottlieb's latest contribution to the growing literature on religion and environment opens with the sounds of a new start. It is not uncommon to hear that an environmental crisis challenges humanity to rethink its fundamental sense of identity and respond in new ways, nor that religions may possess resources to help us do that. But Gottlieb announces that this rethinking and responding is in fact already happening, and is doing so within a …
Islamic Law and Environmental Ethics
Where some religious environmentalisms deploy traditional concepts according to the practical needs of cosmology, usul al-fiqh (jurisprudence) envisions an alternative practical strategy for Islamic environmental ethics. Jurisprudence governs religious adaptations according to guiding principles designed to conform practical reason to the ongoing discovery of divine will. This article shows how those principles can function as mechanisms for norm…
Biodiversity and Salvation
Feasts of the Anthropocene
The discipline of religious studies often misses how climate change drives shifts across its domains of interpretation by treating it as a special object. This essay depicts how cultural stress from anthropogenic changes in planetary systems may be illuminated through what cultures and movements are doing with food and argues that it makes sense to interpret some of those gastronomic functions with religious analyses. Insofar as food movements at…
The Turn to Virtue in Climate Ethics
Global Ethics, Christian Theology, and the Challenge of Sustainability
This paper considers how theology confronts sustainability as a global problem, and what that confrontation can contribute to the challenge of global ethics. After reviewing major models of religious engagement with global ethics, I argue for an analogical conception in which Christian social practices generate moral patterns with the capacity to meet the integrative challenge of global ethics. Theological reflection on those practices then helps…
Islamic Law and Environmental Ethics
Where some religious environmentalisms deploy traditional concepts according to the practical needs of cosmology, usul al-fiqh (jurisprudence) envisions an alternative practical strategy for Islamic environmental ethics. Jurisprudence governs religious adaptations according to guiding principles designed to conform practical reason to the ongoing discovery of divine will. This article shows how those principles can function as mechanisms for norm…
Sacred Places and Planetary Stresses
How are global relations and planetary flows experienced, interpreted, and managed from places set aside from everyday use, as "sacred" in that sense? Sanctuary Lab, a transdisciplinary initiative at UVA, investigates how religious processes interact with planetary stresses. Provisionally adopting a keyword in religious studies, the sacred, opens a post-disciplinary angle of inquiry into Anthropocene processes of cultural and environmental change…
Biodiversity and Salvation
Biodiversity and Salvation
Islamic Law and Environmental Ethics
Where some religious environmentalisms deploy traditional concepts according to the practical needs of cosmology, usul al-fiqh (jurisprudence) envisions an alternative practical strategy for Islamic environmental ethics. Jurisprudence governs religious adaptations according to guiding principles designed to conform practical reason to the ongoing discovery of divine will. This article shows how those principles can function as mechanisms for norm…
The Landscape of Reform
A Greener Faith
Roger Gottlieb's latest contribution to the growing literature on religion and environment opens with the sounds of a new start. It is not uncommon to hear that an environmental crisis challenges humanity to rethink its fundamental sense of identity and respond in new ways, nor that religions may possess resources to help us do that. But Gottlieb announces that this rethinking and responding is in fact already happening, and is doing so within a …
Global Ethics, Christian Theology, and the Challenge of Sustainability
This paper considers how theology confronts sustainability as a global problem, and what that confrontation can contribute to the challenge of global ethics. After reviewing major models of religious engagement with global ethics, I argue for an analogical conception in which Christian social practices generate moral patterns with the capacity to meet the integrative challenge of global ethics. Theological reflection on those practices then helps…
Sustainability and Religion
Ecologies of Grace
Only recently have theologians begun to think and write about the ecological crisis in a focused manner. It is clear, however that people of faith must come to grips with that crisis and find a way of thinking about it in the context of their beliefs. This book offers an introduction to Christian environemntal ethics
After Lynn White
The fields of environmental ethics and of religion and ecology have been shaped by Lynn White Jr.'s thesis that the roots of ecological crisis lie in religious cosmology. Independent critical movements in both fields, however, now question this methodological legacy and argue for alternative ways of inquiry. For religious ethics, the twin controversies cast doubt on prevailing ways of connecting environmental problems to religious deliberations b…
The Future of Ethics
"The Future of Ethics interprets the big questions of sustainability and social justice through the practical problems arising from humanity's increasing power over basic systems of life. What does climate change mean for our obligations to future generations? How can the sciences work with pluralist cultures in ways that will help societies learn from ecological change?Traditional religious ethics examines texts and traditions and highlights pri…
Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology
The Turn to Virtue in Climate Ethics
Feasts of the Anthropocene
The discipline of religious studies often misses how climate change drives shifts across its domains of interpretation by treating it as a special object. This essay depicts how cultural stress from anthropogenic changes in planetary systems may be illuminated through what cultures and movements are doing with food and argues that it makes sense to interpret some of those gastronomic functions with religious analyses. Insofar as food movements at…
Religion and Climate Change
Understanding the cultural dimensions of climate change requires understanding its religious aspects. Insofar as climate change is entangled with humans, it is also entangled with all the ways in which religion attends human ways of being. Scholarship on the connections between religion and climate change includes social science research into how religious identity figures in attitudes toward climate change, confessional and constructive engageme…
The Mysterious Silence of Mother Earth in Laudato Si
Laudato si' attempts simultaneously to disrupt prevailing global environmental discourse and to reorient central concepts in Catholic moral tradition by requalifying the meaning of dominion and by ecologically expanding human dignity. The image of Earth crying out to humans from within a kinship relation plays a central role in both arguments. However, the political consequences of those shifts remain vague because the “voice” of Earth remains si…
Introduction to Focus Issue on Laudato Si
The encyclical Laudato si’ can be read as a religious ethic in several different ways. Contributors to this focus issue read it as magisterial teaching, as environmental thought, as Global South criticism, as Latinx theology, and as philosophy of religion. Foregrounding South American and Latinx receptions, the cumulative argument of this focus issue is that LS represents a cultural event that invites interpretations from contexts and disciplines…
Covid‐19 and Religious Ethics
The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID‐19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics
Sacred Places and Planetary Stresses
How are global relations and planetary flows experienced, interpreted, and managed from places set aside from everyday use, as "sacred" in that sense? Sanctuary Lab, a transdisciplinary initiative at UVA, investigates how religious processes interact with planetary stresses. Provisionally adopting a keyword in religious studies, the sacred, opens a post-disciplinary angle of inquiry into Anthropocene processes of cultural and environmental change…
Coastal Futures Conservatory
This article develops an account of listening as a model for integrating inquiries into rapid environmental change from arts, sciences, and humanities. The account is structured around interpretation of the Coastal Futures Conservatory (CFC), an initiative for integrating arts and humanities into the Long-Term Ecological Research Project at the Virginia Coast Reserve. The CFC organizes collaborative inquiry and public engagement around several ki…
Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith
Did “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” the Jonathan Edwards sermon often studied as spark of the eighteenth-century Great Awakening, have such effect upon its audience because two years of unusually cold weather had rendered them anxious and excitable? Did Islam spread so quickly because a seventh-century volcanic eruption had depressed agriculture, thereby fatally weakening political powers across the regions it conquered? Did Mormonism acc…
Ethics after Humanity
Can humanity survive climate change and mass extinction? Concepts of humanity assumed or implicit in the field at the founding of this journal are under critical pressure from multiple directions. Reading across schools of thought confronting relations sometimes called Anthropocene, this essay explains five tasks for religious ethics “after humanity:” (i) incorporate species‐level relations of power and vulnerability; (ii) denaturalize planetary …
Extinction and Religion
Migrations of the Sacred
What can the study of religion illuminate about the possibilities of value transformation amidst the dwindling of extinctions and dislocations of climate crisis? This essay emerges from collaborative research on Virginia's Eastern Shore. Off the Atlantic side of the Eastern Shore peninsula lies a barrier island system known as the Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR). The fifty-mile string of islands is a UNESCO Biosphere Site and the focus of a U.S. Nat…
Multidisciplinary Reflections on an Active Layer/Permafrost Core in Boreal Alaska
Philosophy (18 obras) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (17 obras) · Environmental ethics (16 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Epistemology (12 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Ecology (9 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Politics (6 obras)