Author: Theresa Rajack-Talley File Type: pdf Living Racism is based on the premise that race and racism are well-entrenched elements of US society. The contributors of this volume argue that race and racism are more than mere concepts instead, they see and treat these as part of the fabric that constitutes and organizes everyday life. Consequently, race and racism are maintained through structures such as social institutions (e.g., schools, criminal justice system, media, etc.) and are carried by individual actors through racial ideologies and a racial etiquette (beliefs, practices, traditions, and customs) that inform how people relate to and interact with one another (or not). As expressed throughout this book, the notion of living racism is twofold. On the one hand, living racism denotes the ways in which racism is embodied and active, much like a living organism. On the other hand, living racism connects with the ways that people must navigate racism in their individual and collective lives.

Author: Laura Hobgood File Type: pdf Divided into four parts-Earth, Air, Fire, and Water-this book takes an elemental approach to the study of religion and ecology. It reflects recent theoretical and methodological developments in this field which seek to understand the ways that ideas and matter, minds and bodies exist together within an immanent frame of reference. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature focuses on how these matters materialize in the world around us, thereby addressing key topics in this area of study. The editors provide an extensive introduction to the book, as well as useful introductions to each of its parts. The volumes international contributors are drawn from the USA, South Africa, Netherlands, Norway, Indonesia, and South Korea, and offer a variety of perspectives, voices, cultural settings, and geographical locales. This handbook shows that human concern and engagement with material existence is present in all sectors of the global community, regardless of religious tradition. It challenges the traditional methodological approach of comparative religion, and argues that globalization renders a comparative religious approach to the environment insufficient. **Review 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. * Mark C.E. Peterson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Colleges, USA * The editors are excellent, gifted scholars, and this book offers a unique slant of theorizing the category of the four elements. It gives expansive, provocative meanings to some fundamental categories that most humans take for granted as we go about our daily lives. * Carol Wayne White, Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, Bucknell University, USA * The editors elemental approach allows for a fresh take on the intersection of religion and nature, breathing new air into the field with a collection of essays spanning disciplines and traditions the result will advance the conversation for years to come with its thoughtful, insightful, and challenging contributions. * Richard Bohannon, Instructor in the Department of Geography and Planning at St. Cloud State University, USA * Some religion and nature scholars seek to understand the ways that religious beliefs and practices emerge from environmental systems, shape social systems, and then transform those environmental systems, and continue to do so, in the long, reciprocal process of bicultural evolution. Other urge new ways of thinking, feeling, acting within and toward these systems, hoping to deepen or evoke perceptions of the world as sacred and worthy of reverent care. Taking more the latter than the former approach, the contributors to this valuable volume provide new paths to consider when exploring the religion and nature field. * Bron Taylor, Professor of Religion, Nature and Environmental Ethics at The University of Florida, USA, and author of Dark Green Religion, Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future and editor of Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (Bloomsbury) and Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. * This fine contribution to the ongoing struggle to transform society towards environmental rationality and care is a serious collection of intelligent, thoughtful, and well written essays. * Roger S. Gottlieb, Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, and author Spirituality What it Is and Why it Matters and Engaging Voices Tales of Morality and Meaning in an Age of Global Warming * About the Author Laura Hobgood is Professor of Religion and the Paden Chair in Religion and Environmental Studies at Southwestern University, USA. Her books include A Dogs History of the World (2014), The Friends We Keep (2010) and Holy Dogs and Asses (2008). hr 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).

Author: Peter Galison File Type: pdf First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. **

Author: Joel Hodge File Type: pdf One of the most pressing issues of our time is the outbreak of extremist violence and terrorism, done in the name of religion. This volume critically analyses the link made between religion and violence in contemporary theory and proposes that religion does not have a special relation to violence in opposition to culture, ideology or nationalism. Rather, religion and violence must be understood with relation to fundamental anthropological and philosophical categories such as culture, desire, disaster and rivalry.Does Religion Cause Violence? explores contemporary instances of religious violence, such as Islamist terrorism and radicalization in its various political, economic, religious, military and technological dimensions, as well as the legitimacy and efficacy of modern cultural mechanisms to contain violence, such as nuclear deterrence. Including perspectives from experts in theology, philosophy, terrorism studies, and Islamic studies, this volume brings together the insights of Rene Girard, the premier theorist of violence in the 20th century, with the latest scholarship on religion and violence, particularly exploring the nature of extremist violence. **