New Materialism and Theology

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52029-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 82 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 136 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Theology

New Materialism and Theology reflects on questions of human embodiment, nonhuman agency, technological innovation, and what really matters now and in possible futures. Bringing theological inquiry together with the philosophical movement of new materialism, Sam Mickey points toward a variety of ways for thinking about matter and everything that materializes in human and more-than-human worlds. Mickey provides introductory definitions and historical context for understanding the relationship between various theological and materialist ideas and practices. He examines the self-declared novelty and materiality of new materialism, noting the limitations of those labels while articulating the very new and quite material challenges that new materialism does indeed pose, challenges of urgent existential importance that demand theological responses. New Materialism and Theology faces the theological implications and material possibilities facing humanity while ecological and technological realities seem to be pointing toward posthuman or transhuman futures or perhaps something else entirely.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mickey, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

New Materialism and Theology

Sam Mickey

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

1 Concepts and Contexts

2 New Matters

3 Humans, Technology, and the Future

Acknowledgments

References

Über Autor(innen)

Sam Mickey, Ph.D. (2012), California Institute of Integral Studies, is an Adjunct Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. He has published several books, including On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).