Beyond Culture
Nature/Culture Dualism and the Christian Otherworldly
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15021683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Elvey (0000-0002-4243-0194, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 63-84 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics & the Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1085-6633 • E-ISSN: 1535-5306 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ete.2006.11.2.63 |
| OpenAlex | W2073829854 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
As Val Plumwood argues, the Christian otherworldly is ecologically problematic. In relation to time, space, being and agency, this article considers the tendency to dualism in Christian appeals to the otherworldly. In the context of Plumwood's critique of nature-skepticism, I ask whether we should also critique an otherworldly skepticism. I then set out five possibilities for understanding the Christian otherworldly in relation to nature and culture. I argue that the otherworldly can be understood not only as a problematic cultural notion that participates in the devaluation of nature, but as a way of understanding the otherness of nature, as having purposes and agencies beyond the cultural construction of earth as world. An understanding of nature as other-worldly presents challenges for both Christian theologies and environmental ethics
Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Dualism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Relation (database · Skepticism · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · History · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
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Gender Trouble
Integrating Ethical Frameworks for Animals, Humans, and Nature A Critical Feminist Eco-Socialist Analysis
Ecofeminism
The Nature of Redemption
In and Of the World? Christian Theological Anthropology and Environmental Ethics
Ecofeminism and Nonhumans
No world but in things
Nature as Agency and the Prospects for a Progressive Naturalism
Mattering
Seeds of Neo-Colonialism? Reflections on Ecological Politics in the New World Order
Bodies That Matter
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |