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  "description": "Catherine Keller practices theology as a relation between ancient hints of ultimacy and current matters of urgency. As the George T As the George T. It",
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  "textContent": "Sponsored by The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and The New Polis in co-operation with the University of Denver\n\nWhen: Friday, Oct. 13 to Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023\n\nWhere: Online (Zoom) – Registration Required\n\nRegister or click on this link\n\nKeynote Speaker: Catherine Keller\n\nCatherine Keller practices theology as a relation between ancient hints of ultimacy and current matters of urgency. As the George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University, she teaches courses in process, political, and ecological theology. Within and beyond Christian conversation, she has all along mobilized the transdisciplinary potential of feminist, philosophical, and pluralist intersections with religion.\n\nHer most recent books invite at once contemplative and social embodiments of our entangled difference: Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances (Forthcoming April 2021); Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public (2018); Intercarnations: On the Possibility of Theology (2017); and Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement (2014). Keller’s other books include On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process (2008); God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys (2005); Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (2003); Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World (1996); and From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism, and Self (1986).\n\nDescription\n\nThe concept of “environmental justice” is a relatively recent addition to the discourses of religious and political theory.  According to the Office of Legacy Management with the Department of Energy, environmental justice can be defined as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.” \n\nHowever, such laws are not sui generis, but have been elaborated in relatively recent times to long-standing spiritual attitudes and value propositions concerning what ought to be the human relationship to, and the character of our collective responsibility for, the natural order.  Virtually all of the world’s historical as well as indigenous religious traditions harbor both implicit and explicit views about how human and non-human beings should cohabit as well as interact with each other. \n\nThe overriding question for the conference is in what specific ways do these traditions both inform and compel specific policies as well as ethical practices that constitute the spectrum of social action that counts as “environmental justice”.\n\nPROGRAM\n\nAbstracts can be found in hyperlinks under paper titles. All times are Mountain Daylight Time.\n\nFriday, Oct. 13\n\n8:15 am\n\nWelcome and Opening Remarks\n\nCarl Raschke, University of Denver\n\n8:30 am\n\nJamir Akhtar, University of the Punjab\n\n“Islamic Views on Resource Conservation: Environmental Justice”\n\n9:00 am\n\nKevin Hujing, University of Denver\n\n“Toward an Integral Ecology”\n\n9:30 am\n\nZane Johnson, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology\n\n“Protestant Mysticism and Early Modern Environmentalism”\n\n10:00 am\n\nBreak\n\n10:30 am\n\nKev Grane, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology\n\n“Religious Sacrificial Sympathy: How Man Became More Valuable than Beast”\n\n11:00\n\nMike Pope, Missional University\n\n“The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil”\n\n11:30 am\n\nElijah Prewitt-Davis, Mount St. Joseph University\n\n“The Solar Nun: The Prophetic Action and Thought of Sr. Paula Gonzalez, S.C”\n\n12:00 noon\n\n Chris Durante,  St. Peters University\n\n“Religious Faith in Pursuit of Environmental Justice”\n\n12:30 pm \n\nDan McKanan, Harvard Divinity School\n\n“Ancestral Devotion, New England Conservation, and the Challenge of Environmental Justice”\n\n1:00\n\nBreak\n\n2:00 pm\n\nKeynote address\n\nCatherine Keller, Drew University\n\n“Earth Matters:   Generation, Motivation, Eco-civilization”\n\nThe very matter of our earthbound lives is ever more at stake. Ecological solidarity recognizes the asymmetrical responsibility of the generations: those will suffer most have done least to cause the crisis.  Motivation for ecological transformation must cross that difference—and so materialize the shared future of our common home.  Motives unfold through a resilient interaction of bodies, stories, facts, ethics, grief, anger, humor and beauty. To the shadowed hope of ecocivilization, might philosophy contribute an earthbound socio-cosmology?\n\n3:30 pm\n\nBreak\n\n4:00 pm\n\nKyler Barbour, University of Guelph\n\n“The Axiology of Creation: Metaphysical Foundations for a Political Theology of the Environment”\n\n4:30 pm\n\nCalynn Dowler, Vanderbilt University\n\n“Staging Climate Justice: Hindu Climate Ethics & Popular Performance in the Sundarbans”\n\n5:00 pm\n\nLisa Jarnot, Drew University\n\n“Against Recycling as Such: Cheap Grace in the Christian Response to Climate Collapse”\n\n5:30 pm\n\nKiara Jorgenson, St. Olafs College\n\n“Vocation as Placemaking: Protestant Theologies of Calling & Environmental Justice”\n\nSaturday, Oct. 14\n\n9:30 am \n\nConvene\n\n10:00 am\n\nRobert Monson, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology\n\n“Seated at the Cross: What Black Disabled Bodies Can Teach Us About Environmental Justice”\n\n10:30 am\n\nHarpreet Kaur, \n\n“Environmental Ethics in Sikhi – Gaps and Achievements in Connecting Theory and Practice” \n\n11:00 am\n\nThomas Massaro, Fordham University\n\n“The Environmental Ethics of Pope Francis: Parsing Key Terms and Claims in Laudato Si”\n\n11:30 am\n\nKsenia Medvedeva, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences\n\n“Green parish” and Other Examples of ‘Ecological Conversion’ in the Orthodox Church in Greece”\n\n12:00 \n\nNick Mather, Regis University\n\n“Greening America’s Virtues”\n\n12:30 \n\nAdjourn",
  "title": "The Religious Roots of Environmental Justice – An Online Conference"
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