[UPDATE] Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics: A Kinship of Compassion
Call for Papers for a Book Proposal
Ecotheology and Nonhuman Ethics: A Kinship of Compassion
After discussing various theologians' views on ecotheodicy, Celia Deane-Drummond asks whether or not "humanity's task is to act as in some way as priest of creation . . . [as then] human creatures can take up the sufferings of the non-human world into an experience of a vision of God" (Deane-Drummond, Celia. Eco-Theology. London: Anselm, 2008. 122). Individuals from diverse fields of study, such as Albert Schweitzer, William Wilberforce, and Lewis Carroll reflected an ethos of compassion about the human treatment of nonhumans in the world that stems from the Judeo-Christian tradition. Though I especially seek papers with compassion overtones from a Judeo-Christian perspective, academic papers addressing any aspect of nonhuman ethics from the angles of the humanities or the sciences are welcome.
Topics might include:
• Kingdom theology
• Solutions for/Prevention of Suffering
• Ecotheology
• Law/Justice
• Laboratory ethics
• Compassion/Mercy
• Theodicy/Ecotheodicy
• Field research
• Animal/Plant ethics in history, religion, or literature
• Jewish Ecology
• Christian Ecology
• Land Ethics
• Human/Nonhuman Dwellings
• Creature Kinship
• Human-Nonhuman Communication
Email abstracts of 250-400 words to mbrotton@lasierra.edu by January 31, 2015. Please include a brief bio of the author and a proposed title. This book proposal is supported by the editor of the Ecocritical Theory and Practice series, published by Lexington Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. For further information, please contact Melissa Brotton at mbrotton@lasierra.edu.