Reading with earth: contributions of the new materialism to an ecological feminist hermeneutics

to bring all life systems, human and non-human, back into balance’ (p.103). Although the inevitable imbalance that results from the comparison of two such different bodies of work needs to be acknowledged, and the lack of a reference to children in the Index indicates a poignant lacuna in both discourses, this excellent book is precisely the kind of research that is essential to enable religious-secular collaborations develop the new vision of development, and the accompanying transformative action, our world so badly needs.