Ethics Across Borders

Gary Slater is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Christian Social Sciences, University of Münster, and Editor of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy. His research is funded by the German Research Council (DFG), and it focuses on borders, migration, environmental ethics, interreligious theology, and philosophical pragmatism.Lisa Landoe Hedrick is Assistant Instructional Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago. She is the author of Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of Intentionality (2021) and contributor to Diversifying the Philosophy of Religion: Critiques, Methods, and Case Studies (2023).

• 1. Introduction: Ethics across religious, political, and ecological borders SECTION I Political 2. Rebordering nature: From geopolitics to geo-politics and a philosophy of geopower 3. In-between spaces in border regions: Examples in the Middle East 4. The leaky boundaries of man-made states: On the ethical ambivalence of borders 5. Political border crossings: Some normative considerations 6. Politics and its limits: From analytical to ecological borders SECTION II Ecological 7. Planetary boundaries 8. Boundaries to the more-than-human as creative zones: Resources for a renewal of theological anthropology 9. Migrations of the sacred: Crossing the human border 10. Natural borders: Emergence and values realism 11. Reflections on the modern boundary of value and the possibility of reenchanted science SECTION III Religious 12. Do good fences make good neighbors? Religious borders, porosity, and the question of appropriation 13. Identity and cultural trespassing: Rabbinic interpretations of cross-border interactions 14. The confessional divide in the post-Westphalian order: Making religious borders flexible 15. The invisible border: The vanishing line of separation between church and state 16. From foundational relationality to populist borders: How did we get here? Overviews 17. Walls, weather, and the spirit in-between: Exercises in border thinking 18. Conclusion