{"title":"Sigurd Bergmann, Kate Rigby and Peter Manley Scott (eds.), Religion, Materialism and Ecology","authors":"Kennedy Dragt","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26571","url":null,"abstract":"Sigurd Bergmann, Kate Rigby and Peter Manley Scott (eds.), Religion, Materialism and Ecology (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2023), xii + 210 pp., £34.99 (pbk), ISBN: 9781032341408.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"5 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139167883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evan Berry (ed.) Climate Politics and the Power of Religion","authors":"F. G. Boudinot","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26874","url":null,"abstract":"Evan Berry (ed.) Climate Politics and the Power of Religion (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2022), 289pp., $40 (pbk), ISBN: 9780253059062.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"48 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139167023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richard J. Bernstein, The Vicissitudes of Nature: From Spinoza to Freud","authors":"Zoe Anthony","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26781","url":null,"abstract":"Richard J. Bernstein, The Vicissitudes of Nature: From Spinoza to Freud (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2023), 278 pp., $26.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9781509555208.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"15 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139167408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Will W. Adams, A Wild and Sacred Call: Nature, Psyche, Spirit","authors":"Karin Meyers","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26698","url":null,"abstract":"Will W. Adams, A Wild and Sacred Call: Nature, Psyche, Spirit (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2023), 391 pp., 33.95 (pbk), ISBN: 9781438492063.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139166722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bénédicte Meillon, Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth","authors":"Bron Taylor","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.26747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26747","url":null,"abstract":"Bénédicte Meillon, Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023), 386pp., $125 (hbk), ISBN: 9781666910421.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"29 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139167274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-reading Tragedy in a Time of Extinction","authors":"Wendy A Wiseman","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.23394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.23394","url":null,"abstract":"As a palliative to despair over climatic and biospheric collapse, classical tragedy, particularly that of Aeschylus and Sophocles, may continue to serve its cathartic function when read in light of Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory of tragedy, in which, through catastrophe, ‘Nature’ is revealed as ‘eternally powerful and pleasurable’, despite all change and loss. Aeschylus’ Oresteia illuminates this divine, chthonic power in the chorus of the Erinyes (Furies), the ‘terrible goddesses’, who uphold the cosmic order with their power to blight or to bless. Under the shadow of Anthropocenic destruction of entangled life-worlds, the Erinyes emerge as transvalued champions of Earth’s primacy, under the sign of justice.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"117 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139184143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘They Worship Certain Trees, the Waters of Rivers,Hills and Mountain Valleys’","authors":"Sabine H Walther","doi":"10.1558/jsrnc.23385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.23385","url":null,"abstract":"The Byzantine author Agathias (sixth century CE) states that the Alamanni are not yet Christians but venerate nature instead. In scholarship, this passage is used as evidence of ‘nature worship’ in the late paganism of this Germanic tribe. However, in-depth analysis suggests a more nuanced picture. On the one hand, nature worship is a classical topos for the religion of barbaric peoples. On the other hand, archaeological and other textual sources give the impression that the Alamanni of Agathias’ day may already have been partially Christianized and might, in fact, have been in a phase of syncretism leaning toward Christianity rather than being ‘staunchly heathen’, as they are often portrayed. Agathias’ claim of a pagan Alamannic nature worship therefore should be seen as a stereotypical projection by this Byzantine author rather than a reflection of genuine Alamannic religious attitudes.","PeriodicalId":503148,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture","volume":"260 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139183247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}