Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism

Banham, Rebecca

doi:10.1558/jasr.23913

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“…Even when held merely as a speculative frame, animist considerability can reopen familiar archives in surprising ways, as Mari Joerstad has shown by reviewing scholarship on the Hebrew Bible through the animist “goad” of personhood as a category not just for humans (2019). Alda Balthrop‐Lewis's study of Thoreau's Religion has reoriented reception of that figure by integrating his abolitionist dissent and political asceticism with attention to his multispecies sociality (2021).…”

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Ethics after Humanity

Jenkins

2023

Journal of Religious Ethics

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Can humanity survive climate change and mass extinction? Concepts of humanity assumed or implicit in the field at the founding of this journal are under critical pressure from multiple directions. Reading across schools of thought confronting relations sometimes called Anthropocene, this essay explains five tasks for religious ethics “after humanity:” (i) incorporate species‐level relations of power and vulnerability; (ii) denaturalize planetary myth‐making; (iii) undo colonial humanisms; (iv) recompose ways of life after the end of the world; and (v) reanimate ethical inquiry in attentiveness to multispecies worldmaking.

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