Biophilia's Queer Remnants
Evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson's biophilia hypothesis, that humans have a genetically influenced emotional affiliation with life and life-like processes, for some time has invigorated a prominent strain of scholarship within religion and ecology that taps into the affective dimensions...
| Published in: | Bulletin for the study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
[2017]
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Bulletin for the study of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Wilson, Edward O. 1929-2021
/ Schaefer, Donovan O. 1981-, Religious affects
/ Ser humano
/ Vida
/ Lo positivo
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AG Religious life; material religion NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
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| Summary: | Evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson's biophilia hypothesis, that humans have a genetically influenced emotional affiliation with life and life-like processes, for some time has invigorated a prominent strain of scholarship within religion and ecology that taps into the affective dimensions of our evolutionary histories. Our biophilic tendencies coupled with the awe, wonder, and reverence evoked by these religiously resonant cosmologies, they argue, provide occasions for cultivating ethical investments rooted in genetic kinship. However, much of this work that adopts biophilia assumes a healthy animal-other and rarely affiliates with the ill, disabled, and mutated creatures impacted by ecological degradation. In conversation with Donovan Schaefer's provocative new book Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power and his engagement with biophilia, this paper considers possibilities for addressing aversion to animals impacted by ecological collapse through Schaefer's understanding of affects as not merely adaptive, but embedded within complex economies of embodiment and power. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-1871 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin for the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bsor.33167 |