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Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of two single-authored books that draw on shared fieldsites, archives, and…
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This special collection of AQ aims to spark new ways of thinking about formations and operations of modern power. Specifically, the articles explore how energic forces and infrastructures interrelate with institutions and ideations of political power. In the hope of fanning sparks into flames, we juxtapose this process of exploration with the influential paradigm of…
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In his “Letter to a Harsh Critic,” Gilles Deleuze (1997, 7–8) describes two ways of reading a book: “you either see it as a box with something inside and start looking for what it signifies, and then if you’re even more perverse or depraved you set off after signifiers. . . . [Or] you see…
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The Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities is a state-of-the-art reference resource that consolidates the large and growing amount of knowledge and expertise in the field in the form of targeted contributions by leading experts. Taking as its starting point the fact that energy poses a significant global challenge, which is not only technological in nature,…
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This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues. It includes scholarly monographs, revised dissertations, Festschriften, conference papers, and translations of ancient and medieval documents. Works cover the sub-disciplines of biblical studies, history of Christianity, history of religion, theology, and ethics. Festschriften for Karl Barth, Donald W.…
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This original study of metaphysical religion is the little known history of a fascinating, unique form of American religion This path-breaking book tells the story of American metaphysical religion more fully than it has ever been told before, along the way significantly revising the panorama of American religious history. Catherine L. Albanese follows metaphysical traditions…
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In the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina a multiplicity of forces pulse through the land. The creatures and entities inhabiting it have long transformed this seemingly arid landscape into a vibrant web of vitality. As the world races towards electromobility (ostensibly to address our climate emergency[1]), this region is being recast as a…
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Electricity can save us from the climate emergency. This is an article of faith for those seriously committed to decarbonizing the world’s energy system. Why? Electricity is the only viable alternative energy infrastructure that exists globally today. It has co-existed and co-evolved with fossil fuels for over a century in most parts of the world.…
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In this article, I argue a new approach to the concept of political theology. I propose that a perspective that includes ecofeminist ideas can enrich and pluralize the state of the art in political theology. I suggest that a political theology inflected by ecofeminism can challenge geographic, androcentric, and anthropocentric biases that currently shape the…
