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A turn to the animal is underway in the humanities, most obviously in such fields as philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. One important catalyst for this development has been the remarkable body of animal theory issuing from such thinkers as Jacques Derrida and Donna Haraway. What might the resulting interdisciplinary field, commonly termed animality studies, mean for theology, biblical studies, and other cognate disciplines? Is it possible to move from animal theory to creaturely theology?
This volume is the first full-length attempt to grapple centrally with these questions. It attempts to triangulate philosophical and theoretical reflections on animality and humanity with theological reflections on divinity. If the animal-human distinction is being rethought and retheorized as never before, then the animal-human-divine distinctions need to be rethought, retheorized, and retheologized along with it. This is the task that the multidisciplinary team of theologians, biblical scholars, philosophers, and historians assembled in this volume collectively undertakes. They do so frequently with recourse to Derrida's animal philosophy and also with recourse to an eclectic range of other relevant thinkers, such as Haraway, Giorgio Agamben, Emmanuel Levinas, Gloria Anzaldua, Helene Cixous, A. N. Whitehead, and Lynn White Jr.
The result is a volume that will be essential reading for religious studies audiences interested in ecological issues, animality studies, and posthumanism, as well as for animality studies audiences interested in how constructions of the divine have informed constructions of the nonhuman animal through history.
Contents
Foreword by Laurel Kearns Acknowledgments Introduction: From Animal Theory to Creaturely Theology Stephen D. Moore Animals, before Me, with Whom I Live, by Whom I Am Addressed: Writing after Derrida Glen A. Mazis The Dogs of Exodus and the Question of the Animal Ken Stone Devouring the Human: Digestion of a Corporeal Soteriology Erika Murphy The Microbes and Pneuma That Therefore I Am Denise Kimber Buell The Apophatic Animal: Toward a Negative Zootheological Imago Dei Jacob J. Erickson The Divinanimality of Lord Sequoia Terra S. Rowe Animal Calls Kate Rigby Little Bird in My Praying Hands: Rainer Maria Rilke and God's Animal Body Beatrice Marovich The Logos of God and the End of Humanity: Giorgio Agamben and the Gospel of John on Animality as Light and Life Eric Daryl Meyer Anzaldua's Animal Abyss: Mestizaje and the Late Ancient Imagination An Yountae and Peter Anthony Mena Daniel's Animal Apocalypse Jennifer L. Koosed and Robert Paul Seesengood Ecotherology Stephen D. Moore And Say the Animal Really Responded: Speaking Animals in the History of Christianity Laura Hobgood-Oster So Many Faces: God, Humans, and Animals Jay McDaniel and J. Aaron Simmons A Spiritual Democracy of All God's Creatures: Ecotheology and the Animals of Lynn White Jr. Matthew T. Riley Epilogue: Animals and Animality: Reflections on the Art of Jan Harrison Jay McDaniel Notes List of Contributors Index
