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This book charts a new direction in humanities scholarship through serious engagement with the geopolitical concept of the Anthropocene. Drawing on religious studies, theology, social science, history, philosophy, and what can be broadly termed the environmental humanities, this collection represents a groundbreaking critical analysis of diverse narratives on the Anthropocene. The contributors to this volume recognize that the Anthropocene began as a geological concept, the age of the humans, but that its implications are much wider than this. Will the Anthropocene have good or bad ethical outcomes? Does the Anthropocene debate trigger the emergence of a new ecological humanism? Does the Anthropocene idea challenge the possibility of a sacred Nature, which shores up many religious approaches to environmental ethics? Or is the Anthropocene a secularized theological anthropology more properly dealt with through traditional concepts from Catholic social teaching on human ecology? Do theological traditions, such as Christology, reinforce negative aspects of the Anthropocene? Not all contributors in this volume agree with the answers to these different questions. Readers will be challenged, provoked, and stimulated by this book.Table of ContentsList of Figures Foreword: The Anthropocene as a Challenge for Public Theology —Heinrich Bedford-StrohmAcknowledgments Contributors The Future of Religion in the Anthropocene Era —Celia Deane-Drummond, Sigurd Bergmann, and Markus VogtPart 1: Setting the Stage1 On Going Gently into the Anthropocene —Michael Northcott2 From the Anthropocene Epoch to a New Axial Age:Using Theory-Fictions to Explore Geo-Spiritual Futures —Bronislaw Szerszynski3 Transformations of Stewardship in the Anthropocene —Christoph Baumgartner4 Religion at Work within Climate Change: Eight Perceptionsabout Its Where and How —Sigurd BergmannPart 2: Historical Matters5 Bridging the Great Divide: The Anthropocene as a Challengeto the Social Sciences and Humanities —Franz Mauelshagen6 Becoming Human in the Anthropocene —Agustín FuentesPart 3: Philosophical Analyses7 De-moralizing and Re-moralizing the Anthropocene —Maria Antonaccio8 Anthropocene Fever: Memory and the Planetary Archive —Stefan Skrimshire9 Reconsidering the Anthropocene as Milieu: William Desmondand the Originary Goodness of Being —Francis Van den NoortgaetePart 4: Theological Trajectories10 Performing the Beginning in the End: A Theological Anthropologyfor the Anthropocene —Celia Deane-Drummond11 Cooled Down Love and an Overheated Atmosphere: René Girardon Ecology and Apocalypticism in the Anthropocene —Petra Steinmair-Pösel12 Beyond Human Exceptionalism: Christology in theAnthropocene —Matthew Eaton13 American Evangelicalism, Apocalypticism, and theAnthropocene —Marisa RonanPart 5: Ethical Deliberations14 Human Ecology as a Key Discipline of Environmental Ethicsin the Anthropocene —Markus Vogt15 Protection of Threatened Species in the Anthropocene:A Theological-Ethical Perspective —Anders MelinPart 6: Sociopolitical Transformations16 Contesting the Good Life of Technological Modernityin the Anthropocene —Ian Barns17 The Anthropocene and the Future of Diplomacy: Religion,Ecology, and Transnational Relations in the Age of HumanResponsibility —David Joseph WellmanBibliography General Index

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