Clayton Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts across a number of leading-edge disciplines. Drawing from contemporary philosophies of New Materialism, non-Western traditions, and the sciences, he develops a comprehensive vision of energy as a material process spanning physics, biology, politics, ecology, and religion.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: New Materialism and Energy Transformation
1. The Dynamics of Nature
2. Vital Matters: Bioenergetics and Life
3. Political Economy and Political Ecology: Energy, General Economy, and Exchange
4. Of Spirit in Amerindian, Vodou, and Chinese Traditions
5. Radical Theology and the Nature of God
Notes
Index