Table of Contents

Introduction
Karen Bray, Heather Eaton, and Whitney Bauman | 1
Confucianism as a Form of Immanental Naturalism
Mary Evelyn Tucker | 15
Immanence in Hinduism and Jainism: New Planetary Thinking?
Christopher Key Chapple | 31
Mountains Preach the Dharma: Immanence in Maha¯ya¯na Buddhism
Christopher Ives | 49
Africana Sacred Matters: Religious Materialities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas
Elana Jefferson-Tatum | 60
We have always been animists . . .
Graham Harvey | 74
Indigenous Cosmovisions and a Humanist Perspective on Materialism
John Grim | 88
Amorous Entanglements: The Matter of Christian Panentheism
Catherine Keller | 99
On the Matter of Hope: Weaving Threads of Jewish Wisdom for the Sake of the Planetary
O’neil Van Horn | 111
Oily Animations: On Protestantism and Petroleum
Terra Schwerin Rowe | 123
Interreligious Approaches to Sustainability Without a Future:
Two New Materialist Proposals for Religion and Ecology
Kevin Minister | 136
Which Materialism, Whose Planetary Thinking?
Joerg Rieger | 148
Rewilding Religion for a Primeval Future
Sarah M. Pike | 161
Planetary Thinking, Agency, and Relationality: Religious Naturalism’s Plea
Carol Wayne White | 173
Dancing Immanence: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming
Kimerer L. LaMothe | 186
The Animist, Almost Feminist, Quite Nearly Pantheist Old Materialism of Giordano Bruno
Mary-Jane Rubenstein | 198
Emergence Theory and the New Materialisms
Kevin Schilbrack | 210
New Materialisms and Planetary Persistence, Purpose, and Politics
Heather Eaton | 222
Gut Theology: The Peril and Promise of Political Affect
Karen Bray | 234
The Entangled Relations of Our Ecological Crisis:
Religion, Capitalism’s Logics, and New Forms of Planetary Thinking
Matthew R. Hartman | 248
Solidarity with Nonhumans: Being Ecological with Object-Oriented Ontology
Sam Mickey | 260
Developing a Critical Romantic Religiosity for a Planetary Community
Whitney A. Bauman | 274
Matter Values: Ethics and Politics for a Planet in Crisis
Philip Clayton | 289
Acknowledgments | 303
Bibliography | 305
List of Contributors | 335
Index | 341

About the Author

Karen Bray (Edited By)
Karen Bray is Associate Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Social Change and Director of the Honors Program at Wesleyan College. Her recent publications include Grave Attending: A Political Theology for the Unredeemed and the co-edited volume Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies.
Heather Eaton (Edited By)
Heather Eaton is Full Professor at St. Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Introducing Ecofeminist Theologies, co-editor, with Lauren Levesque, of Advancing Nonviolence and Social Transformation, and editor of The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry: Imagining the Earth Community.
Whitney Bauman (Edited By)
Whitney Bauman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He is also co-founder and co-director of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge, a nonprofit based in Berlin, Germany. His publications include Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic andEnvironmental Ethics and Uncertainty: Tackling Wicked Problems (co-written with Kevin O’Brien).

Reviews

Earthly Things is brimming with fruitful insights, generative extensions, and stimulating rapprochements. I hope it finds curious and open-minded audiences invested in religious studies, science and technology studies, philosophy, and the environmental humanities.-- "H-Net Reviews"