Religion, Politics, and the Earth

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Digital Culture

   • Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins

   Pages 1-16

3. Religion

   • Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins

   Pages 17-35

4. Politics

   • Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins

   Pages 37-53

5. Art

   • Michael W. Wilson

   Pages 55-68

6. Ethics

   • Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins

   Pages 69-86

7. Energy

   • Kevin Mequet

   Pages 87-99

8. A Radical Proposal for Nuclear Energy

   • Kevin Mequet

   Pages 101-110

9. Being (a Brain)

   • Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins

   Pages 111-126

10. Logic

    • Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins

    Pages 127-144

11. Conclusion: The Event

    • Clayton Crockett, Jeffrey W. Robbins

    Pages 145-153

12. Back Matter

    Pages 155-181

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"Following Vattimo's postmodern philosophy, Badiou's postmetaphysical ontology, and i ek's revolutionary style, the authors of this marvelous book invites us to reactivate our politics of resistance against our greatest enemy: corporate capitalism. The best solution to the ecological, energy, and financial crisis corporate capitalism has created, as Crockett Clayton and Jeffrey Robbins suggest, is a new theological materialism where Being is conceived as energy both subjectively and objectively. All my graduate students will have to read this book carefully if they want to become philosophers." - Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona "This is a book of an extraordinary timeliness, written in an accessible and strikingly informative way. It is excellently poised to become a synthetic and agenda setting statement about the implications of a new materialism for the founding of a new radical theology, a new kind of spirituality. I consider this therefore quite a remarkable book which will be influential in ongoing discussions of psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and theology. Moreover, it will be, quite simply, the best book about spirituality and the new materialism on the market today. While all of the work of the new materialists engage at one level or another the question of a new spirituality, I do not think there is anything comparable in significance to what Crockett and Robbins have provided here." - Ward Blanton, University of Kent "This book will perhaps be most appreciated by the reader with an intuitive cast of mind, able to recognize the force of an argument in its imaginative suggestiveness . . . New Materialism is about energy transformation, we are told, energy which cannot be reduced to matter because it resonates with spirit and life . . . Yet the book strikes a fundamental note of hard reality: 'if we want our civilization to live on earth a little longer we will have to recognize our coexistence with and in earth'." - Christian Ecology Link

• capitalism
• culture
• energy
• ethics
• event
• logic
• Materialism
• Orient
• politics
• religion
• understanding
• religion and society

'I love the sense of urgency from Crockett and Robbins. By invoking the earth as subject, they have named our emergency situation today. This book is a true manifesto. It is comprehensive and encyclopedic. And as a renewal of radical theology as an insurrectionary political theology, it just might be a new species of liberation theology. Don't miss this book!' - Cornel West, author of Race Matters, Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary, US

"Following Vattimo's postmodern philosophy, Badiou's postmetaphysical ontology, and i ek's revolutionary style, the authors of this marvelous book invites us to reactivate our politics of resistance against our greatest enemy: corporate capitalism. The best solution to the ecological, energy, and financial crisis corporate capitalism has created, as Crockett Clayton and Jeffrey Robbins suggest, is a new theological materialism where Being is conceived as energy both subjectively and objectively. All my graduate students will have to read this book carefully if they want to become philosophers." - Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona

"This is a book of an extraordinary timeliness, written in an accessible and strikingly informative way. It is excellently poised to become a synthetic and agenda setting statement about the implications of a new materialism for the founding of a new radical theology, a new kind of spirituality. I consider this therefore quite a remarkable book which will be influential in ongoing discussions of psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and theology. Moreover, it will be, quite simply, the best book about spirituality and the new materialism on the market today. While all of the work of the new materialists engage at one level or another the question of a new spirituality, I do not think there is anything comparable in significance to what Crockett and Robbins have provided here." - Ward Blanton, University ofKent

Author Clayton Crockett: Clayton Crockett is an associate professor of Religion and Director of the Religious Studies Program, University of Central Arkansas Author Jeffrey W. Robbins: Jeffrey W. Robbins is an associate professor of Religion and American Studies, Lebanon Valley College

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