Sigurd Bergmann is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.
Kate Rigby is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities and Director of the research hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Peter Manley Scott is Samuel Ferguson Professor of Applied Theology and Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute at the University of Manchester, UK.
Introduction 1. Developing a Critical Planetary Romanticism: Re-Attuning to the Earth 2. Architecting Zoë: On Haunting Homes and Sacred Ecomateriality 3. Planetary Technics, Earthly Spirits 4. Panexperiential Materialism? On the Contribution of Bruno Latour and Alfred N. Whitehead to Understanding the Encyclical Laudato Si 5. Binding the Wounds of Mother Earth: Christian Animism, New Materialism, and the Politics of Nonhuman Personhood Today 6. Spirit Possession as Focal Point in the Constellation of Religion, Materialism, and Ecology 7. Autothanatography and Terminal Relationality in the Time of the Anthropocene 8. A Poetics of Nature: Religious Naturalism, Multiplicities, and Affinities 9. Queering Stories of Religious Materialism: Plural Practices of (Earth) Care and Repair 10. The Matter of Oil: Extraction Vitalisms and Enchantment 11. Fiction's Double-Helix: Incarnate Process and the Capacity for Transformation in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol Afterword
This volume by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a discussion on materialism in its many forms. For postgraduate students, researchers and scholars in religious studies, cultural anthropology, literary studies, philosophy and environmental studies.