New Materialism and Theology (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Theology)

Mickey, Sam

Brill（2022/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 82 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004520295
• DDC分類 230

Full Description

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.

Contents

New Materialism and Theology

 Sam Mickey

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

 1 Concepts and Contexts

 2 New Matters

 3 Humans, Technology, and the Future

 Acknowledgments

References