Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature

Laura Hobgood is Professor of Religion and the Paden Chair in Religion and Environmental Studies at Southwestern University, USA. Her books include A Dog’s History of the World (2014), The Friends We Keep (2010) and Holy Dogs and Asses (2008). Whitney Bauman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University, USA. He is author of Religion and Ecology (2014), and co-editor of Science and Religion (2014), and Grounding Religion (2010, 2017).

• List of ImagesList of Contributors1. Introduction, Laura Hobgood (Southwestern University, USA) and Whitney Bauman (Florida International University, USA)Part One: Earth2. Backyard Gardens as Sacred Spaces: An Emerging Research Agenda of Africana Spiritual Ecology for Ecowomanist Thought, Elonda Clay (VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)3. In a Body on Wheels in Touch with the Earth: Cycling as Religion and Response, Laura Hobgood (Southwestern University, USA) 4. Pressure, Gestures: Sacral Work: Bodies Poetics, Bobbi Patterson (Emory University, USA)5. Blood in The Soil: The Racial, Racist, and Religious Dimensions of Environmentalism, Christopher Carter (University of San Diego, USA)6. To Eat or Be Eaten? That’s the Question, Ernst Conradie (University of Western Cape, South Africa)Part Two: Air 7: The Personhood of Air: The Ammatoan’s Indigenous Perspective, Samsul Maarif (Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia) 8. Changing Atmospheres of Religion and Nature, Forrest Clingerman (Ohio Northern University, USA)9. Eco-Dao: An Ecological Theology of the Dao, Heup Young Kim (Kangnam University, South Korea)10. Remembering the Air: Aesthetic, Ethical, and Spiritual Dimensions of Wind Energy, Lisa Sideris (Indiana University, USA)11. Conspiring Together: Breathing for Justice, Laurel Kearns (Drew University, USA)Part Three: Fire12. Recovering/Uncovering Animality, Paul Waldau (Canisius College, USA)13. Feral Becoming and Environmentalism’s Primal Future, Sarah Pike (California State University, Chico, USA)14. From Burning Bush and Refiner's Fire to Refinery Fires: Reflections on the Combustive Element of Fire, Marion Grau (Norwegian School of Theology, Norway)15. Fire, Religion, Nature and Shona Culture, Bella Mukonyora (Western Kentucky University, USA)16. Protective Occupation, Emergent Networks, Rituals of Solidarity: Comparing Alta (Sápmi), Mauna Kea (Hawai`i), and Standing Rock (North Dakota), Siv Ellen Kraft (University of the Arctic, Tromsø, Norway) and Gregory Johnson (University of Colorado, USA)Part Four: Water 17. Buddhism, Bodhisattvas, and Compassionate Wisdom of Water, Elizabeth McAnally (Yale University, USA)18. Mountains of Memory: Confronting Climate Change in Sacred Mountain Landscapes, Elizabeth Allison (California Institute of Integral Studies, USA)19. At The Mercy Of Sacred Waters: Sanctification, Fetishization, Permeation and Responsiveness, Sigurd Bergman (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)20. Water from a Stone: Dams, Deserts, and the Miracle of Moses in the Modern World, Catherine Newell (University of Miami, USA)21. Concluding Reflections, Jay McDaniel (Hendrix College, USA)BibliographyGlossaryIndex

Hemispheric, religious, and philosophical diversity are desirable in any useful interdisciplinary anthology and these collected authors deliver a fresh, rigorous, and provocatively arranged treatment of the material. The result is a thoughtful and opportune contribution to this increasingly important area of scholarship.