Chapter 1:
Introduction: Feminisms, Materialisms and Reading with Earth
Section 1: The Materiality of Breath
Chapter 2:
Breath and Earth Voice: Exploring an Ecological Hermeneutics of
Retrieval
Chapter 3:
Retrieving an Earth Voice: Reading Materially ‘as if it’s holy’
Chapter 4:
Strained Breath and Open Text: Exploring the Materiality of Breath
in Relation to Reading Luke 4:16-30
Section 2: Situating Ecological Materialism
Chapter 5:
Reframing Feminist Approaches Ecologically: Matter, Freedom and the
Future
Chapter 6:
Climate Change as Material Situation: Interpreting the Present
Period alongside Luke 12.54-56
Chapter 7:
Rethinking Neighbour Love: Political Theology, Ecological Ethics
and an Ecological Materialist Reading of Luke 10.25-37
Section 3: Shared Vulnerabilities
Chapter 8:
An Ecological Feminist Approach to Cross Species Relatedness:
Compassion and Luke 10.30-37
Chapter 9:
Mountaintop Removal Mining (MTR) and Isaiah 40.4 (and Luke 3.5):
Resisting the Violence of Homogenization
Chapter 10:
The Great Barrier Reef and Reading toward Activism:
Transfigurations and Disfigurations
Chapter 11:
Concluding Reflection
Bibliography
Index
Demonstrates a decolonizing ecological feminist hermeneutics for biblical study informed by the material turn and engagements with literature.
Anne Elvey is Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia, and Honorary Research Associate at University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia.
The extraordinary breadth in this braided conversation between the
biblical text and contemporary ecological contexts is impressive.
Elvey combines analysis with creativity, complexities with poetry,
nuance with passion. This work challenges, inspires and exhorts us
to change and to imagine the future of our world differently.
*Elizabeth Dowling, Independent Biblical Scholar, Australia*
This work builds upon the ecological hermeneutic of the Earth Bible
project, while drawing also from feminist theological readings, the
new materialism, indigenous scholarship and activism, and poetry,
all in the service of reading Luke “with the Earth.” This is a
sophisticated, passionate, and timely reading. The Earth cries out,
and Elvey enables us to hear these cries.
*Shelly Matthews, Brite Divinity School, USA*
With great expertise and the fresh vision of a poet, Elvey draws
disparate sources together into a searching eco-feminist
conversation. This is a compelling appraisal of what it takes to
face the traumas of ecological damage, colonialism and patriarchy
and move towards the flourishing of all, including our
more-than-human kin.
*Vicky Balabanski, Adelaide College of Divinity, Australia*
This book is a breath of fresh air. Its braided ecological feminist
materialist approach breathes exhortation, encouragement and
consolation to enable shifts in perception. This book energises
impelling action for a future unlike the present in cooperation
with Earth and the more than human in all their vibrant
materiality.
*Kathleen P. Rushton, Independent Biblical Interpreter, New
Zealand*
Anne Elvey’s work is a deeply personal, ongoing wrestle with
Scripture and the nature of its demands in a deeply unjust world.
It is a challenging and compassionate journey of ecological
entanglement, poetic feminism, and fundamental ecological
understanding, urging us to let ourselves be embraced by a more
complete, just, and harmonious world.
*Christina Petterson, Australian National University,
Australia*
Anne Elvey has written a very helpful guide to addressing the
crisis of climate change in the context of biblical hermeneutics
and feminist scholarship.
*The International Journal for the Study of the Christian
Church*
[T]here is much in the text to stimulate and challenge … I commend
Reading with Earth as an important contribution.
*Modern Believing*
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