Divinanimality: Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology

Published by Fordham University Press 2014

Divinanimality

Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology

Edited by: Stephen D. Moore
Preface by: Laurel Kearns

In the series Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823263226

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About this book

This volume is the first full-length attempt from within the fields of theological and biblical studies to grapple with “the turn to the animal” currently underway in the humanities, a turn catalyzed in part by the animality theory that has issued from such thinkers as Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway.

Author / Editor information

Moore Stephen D. :

Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies at the Theological School, Drew University.Kearns Laurel :

LAUREL KEARNS is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion and Environmental Studies in the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. She is the co-editor of Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth (Fordham).

Reviews

—Mark Wallace:
“This is an excellent volume, written with clarity, precision, and deep feeling for a better understanding of the sacred character of animal beings within the wider natural world.”

“The claim that non-existence is morally preferable to one that ends in premature abattoir death seems, at the least, debatable. Coming up to date, Stephen Moore's collection Divinanimality goes straight to the intrinsic worth argument - on spiritual and religious grounds. The title (from the French philosopher Jacques Derrida) sees animals collectively as 'radically other' in ways akin to the 'radical otherness' of God, so as to position humans and animals within a shared sphere of mutual respect and care."

—Mary-Jane Rubenstein:
An outstanding and important piece of collective scholarship.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
FOREWORD Laurel Kearns Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Introduction: From Animal Theory to Creaturely Theology Stephen D. Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Animals, before Me, with Whom I Live, by Whom I Am Addressed: Writing after Derrida Glen A . Mazis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
The Dogs of Exodus and the Question of the Animal Ken Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Devouring the Human: Digestion of a Corporeal Soteriology Erika Murphy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
The Microbes and Pneuma That Therefore I Am Denise Kimber Buell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
The Apophatic Animal: Toward a Negative Zootheological Imago Dei Jacob J. Erickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
The Divinanimality of Lord Sequoia Terra S. Rowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Animal Calls Kate Rigby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Little Bird in My Praying Hands: Rainer Maria Rilke and God’s Animal Body Beatrice Marovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
The Logos of God and the End of Humanity: Giorgio Agamben and the Gospel of John on Animality as Light and Life Eric Daryl Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
Anzaldúa’s Animal Abyss: Mestizaje and the Late Ancient Imagination An Yountae and Peter Anthony Mena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Daniel’s Animal Apocalypse Jennifer L. Koosed and Robert Paul Seesengood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Ecotherology Stephen D. Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
And Say the Animal Really Responded: Speaking Animals in the History of Christianity Laura Hobgood-Oster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
So Many Faces: God, Humans, and Animals Jay McDaniel and J. Aaron Simmons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
A Spiritual Democracy of All God’s Creatures: Ecotheology and the Animals of Lynn White Jr Matthew T. Riley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Epilogue. Animals and Animality: Reflections on the Art of Jan Harrison Jay McDaniel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 392
Keywords: animals; animality; posthumanism; ecology; ecotheology; biblical interpretation; Jacques Derrida; Donna Haraway

eBook

Published: September 15, 2014
ISBN: 9780823263226