Laura Hobgood - The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature

Bloomsbury Handbooks in Religion

The Bloomsbury Handbooks in Religion explore major and new areas of research within the field of religious studies. Topics covered by the volumes range from the intersections of religion and popular music, religion and race, to Christianity in America. Their focus is on cutting-edge research, and they make an ideal reference tool for researchers in the field.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music

Edited by Christopher Partridge and Marcus Moberg

Interior of the Shrine of Madonna del Ghisallo, patron saint of cyclists, in Magreglio, Italy.

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A ghost-angel bicycle in Georgetown, Texas. The bicycle is installed at the location where a young cyclist was hit by a truck and killed in January 2017.

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J. M. W. Turner, Fishermen at Sea, 1796.

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J. M. W. Turner, Snowstormsteam-boat off a harbours mouth making signals in shallow water, and going by the lead, c. 1842.

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J. M. W. Turner, The Deluge, 1805.

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The Baptism of Christ, fourteenth-century fresco, Pomposa Abbey, Codorigo, Italy.

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Dampfmaschinenhaus/Maurische Dampfmoschee (Moorish Steam Mosque), Potsdam, 184143.

Photo: S. Bergmann, December 2010, September 2016.

Hermann Prigann, Waterlevel, transformation of a former water-pumping station (near Marl, Germany) into a landscape artwork, 2001.

Herman Prigann / BONO, Oslo 2017

Art Without an Object but with Impact, by George Steinmann 200812.

Photo: George Steinmann/Pro Litteris, Switzerland 2016, George_Steinmann / BONO, Oslo 2017.

Elizabeth Allison is Associate Professor of Ecology and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where she founded and chairs the graduate program in Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion. Her research and teaching explore connections between religion, ethics, and environmental practice, with particular attention to biodiversity, waste, ecological place, and climate change. Her articles appear in journals including WIREs Climate Change, Mountain Research and Development, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, and in edited volumes on Bhutan, religion, and geography. She is working on a book entitled Enchanted Earth: Religion, Environment, and Development in Modernizing Bhutan.

Whitney Bauman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University in Miami. His teaching and research interests are in Religion and Science, Religion and Nature, and Religion and Queer Theory. His publications include Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic (Columbia University Press, 2014) and with Kevin OBrien and Richard Bohannon, Grounding Religion: A Fieldguide to Religion and Ecology, 2nd Revised Edition (Routledge, 2017).

Sigurd Bergmann is Professor in Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and lives in Lund, Sweden. His previous studies have investigated the relationship between the image of God and the view of nature in late antiquity, the methodology of contextual theology, visual arts in the indigenous Arctic and Australia, as well as visual arts, architecture and religion, and religion in climate change. He established the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment, and among his many publications are Creation Set Free (Eerdmans, 2005), God in Context (Routledge, 2003), In the Beginning Is the Icon (Routledge, 2009), Raum und Geist (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010), Religion, Space and the Environment (Transaction, 2014), and Theology in Built Environments (ed., Transaction, 2009), Religion in Global Environmental and Climate Change (co ed., Continuum, 2011), Religion in the Anthropocene (co ed., Wipf & Stock, 2017), and Religion, Arts and the Environment (co ed., Brill, 2018).

Christopher Carter is Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. His teaching and research interests are in Christian Social Ethics, Black and Womanist Theological Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Religion and Food, and Religion and Animals. His publications include The Spirit of Soul Food (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming), and The Future of Meat Without Animals (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).

Elonda Clay is a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands in Theology and Religious Studies. Her teaching and research interests include Africana religions and ecology and science, religion, and media. Her dissertation, Genetic Journeys and Recycled Roots: Intermediality and Myth, focuses on media portrayals of direct-to-consumer DNA ancestry testing and African American consumers of personal genomic services in the United States. She situates these portrayals within wider politics of representation, especially junctures in which media portrayals of race and genetics intersect with discourses about ethno-racial origins, genetic homelands, makeover television, (bio) racial uplift, and online ancestoring practices. She currently serves on the American Academy of Religion steering committees for Media, Religion, and Culture and Critical Approaches to Religion and Hip Hop.

Forrest Clingerman is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Ohio Northern University. Using tools from philosophical hermeneutics (theories of interpretation), he has researched the religious dimensions of issues such as climate change, environmental themes in art and literature, and the concept of place. He is co-editor of Theological and Ethical Perspectives on Climate Engineering: Calming the Storm (with Kevin OBrien, Lexington, 2016) and Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics (with Brian Treanor, Martin Drenthen, and David Utsler, Fordham, 2014).

Ernst M. Conradie is Senior Professor in the Department of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, where he teaches systematic theology and ethics. He is, most recently, the author of The Earth in Gods Economy: Creation, Salvation and Consummation in Ecological Perspective (LIT Verlag, 2015), Redeeming Sin: Social Diagnostics amid Ecological Destruction (Lexington, forthcoming) and the leading editor of Christian Faith and the Earth: Current Paths and Emerging Horizons in Ecotheology (T&T Clark, 2014).

Marion Grau is Professor of Systematic Theology and Missiology at MF Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo, Norway. Her teaching interests are in constructive theology and her current research projects include a monograph on the redevelopment of pilgrimage and the reshaping of identity in Norway and an Arctic Theology of Petroleum economies and climate change in the Northern hemisphere. She is the author of Rethinking Theological Hermeneutics: Hermes, Trickster, Fool (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony: Salvation, Society, and Subversion