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Green Allies: Speculative Realism, Evangelical Christianity, and Political Pluralism

Tampio, Nicholas
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Tampio, Nicholas
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Levi Bryant
speculative realism
climate change
evangelical Christianity
David Gushee
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Ecotheology
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/4223215
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Abstract
This essay addresses the question of how to build political coalitions to address global warming. For speculative realists such as Levi Bryant, responding to climate change demands materialist ontologies that recognize the efficacy of things themselves, e.g. fossil fuels. And yet, I argue, Bryant does not sufficiently address the political assignment of building political coalitions with people who endorse different ontologies. To illuminate this possibility, I show how the American evangelical David Gushee arrives at similar conclusions by a different route. The essay encourages speculative realists to fold modesty into their political thinking for the sake of building coalitions with theists about matters of common concern.
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Date
2016-11-01
Identifier
TANDF-10.1179/1462317X14Z.000000000117
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/1462317X14Z.000000000117
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1462317X14Z.000000000117
ISSN-PRINT-1462-317X
ISSN-ELECT-1743-1719
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10.1179/1462317X14Z.000000000117
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© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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