Religious Responses to the Anthropocene Age
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2023) | Viewed by 277
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although responses to the Anthropocene have largely come from the natural and social sciences, religious responses to the Anthropocene have also been gaining momentum, and many scholars have been calling for a religious response to complement scientific and political responses to climate change. This Special Issue will, therefore, look at the ways different religious traditions are responding to the Anthropocene Age, and how they are seeking to understand what it means to be human, not placed against the natural world, but as a co-dependent and relational part of it. By focusing on how worlds can be made rather than destroyed, this Special Issue will focus on how different religious traditions provide an ethos in harmony with the more than the human world. Religious responses to environmental collapse will show how these traditions view the potential lifeworlds that replace modern dichotomies with symbiotic survival strategies that could provide the necessary resistance to the end times enabled by techno-industrial capitalism. Focusing on religious traditions that are seeking to address the Anthropocene Age, this Special Issue welcomes contributions from all religious and spiritual traditions and hopes to represent a wide diversity of traditions. Rather than reinforcing the nature/culture divide, we seek religious responses that can replace such a divide with a religious understanding in line with twenty-first century science and ecology. Perhaps such religious traditions can help us to develop a new myth or metanarrative to replace what Bronislaw Szerszynski calls the “amythia” that plagues the secular West, one capable of providing a holistic vision of our place on the Earth, which is capable of inspiring what Szerszynski calls a “second axial age” (2017:42). This Special Issue aims to develop this future possibility by bringing a wide variety of such religious contributions into the public sphere.
Dr. Arianne Françoise Conty
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anthropocene
- religion
- spirituality
- ecology
- gaia
- sacred earth
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