Drawing on methodologies from religious studies, cultural studies, art history and architecture, philosophy, environmental ethics and aesthetics, history, and theology, This book will be of great interest to all those concerned with studying the environment from a transdisciplinary perspective on weather and wisdom.
Sigurd Bergmann's previous studies have investigated the relationship between the image of God and the view of nature in late antiquity and late modernity, the methodology of contextual theology, and visual arts in the indigenous Arctic and Australia, as well as visual arts, architecture and religion, and religion in climate change. He has inititated the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment, and among his many publications are Religion, Space and the Environment (2014), Religion in the Anthropocene (ed. 2017), and Arts, Religion and the Environment: Exploring Nature's Texture (ed. 2018).
1. Being Alive in Weather Lands - Preliminary remarks
2. Inventing Weather - Conveying the mysteries of alteration in J. M. W. Turner's painting
3. Atmospheres Agog - Weather, Culture, Religion
4. Weathering the History of Christianity - Justice, Witchery, and Moral Thunder
5. In Suspense - Meteorology beneath the stars
6. Weather as commodity or gift?
7. Under the Weather Roof - Shelter, Faith and Architecture
8. Atmosphere and Anthropocene - Critical considerations of a narrative and image in transit to the Ecocene.