K a r e n B r ay is a PhD candidate in Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion at Drew University. Her research employs queer and feminist

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1 Cont ributor s K a r e n B r ay is a PhD candidate in Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion at Drew University. Her research employs queer and feminist approaches to affect, temporality, and work in order to construct a counter-capitalist political theology. For the last three years, she has taught undergraduate courses in Queer and Decolonial Theology, Sexual Ethics, New Materialism, World Christianities, and Affect Theory at The New School in New York City. She is a candidate for ordination with the Unitarian Universalist Association. C l ay t on C r o c k e t t, Professor and Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas. He is the author of Religion, Politics and the Earth: The New Materialism (2012). He is also a Contributing Editor of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and co-editor of the Columbia University Press book series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Ta m s i n Jone s is Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she teaches courses in the history of Christian thought, gender and religion, and the philosophy of religion. She is the author of A Genealogy of Marion s Philosophy of Religion: Apparent Darkness (2011) as well as articles in Modern Theology and Journal of Religion. She is currently working on the concept of religious experience as it is discussed in continental philosophy and against the backdrop of trauma theory. Kimerer L. LaMothe is a dancer, philosopher, and scholar of religion who taught at Brown and Harvard Universities before moving

2 184 Contributors to a farm in Upstate New York. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and the Center for the Study of World Religions and the award-winning author of five books, including Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming (2015) and Nietzsche s Dancers (2006). K e v i n M i n i s t e r is an Assistant Professor of Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. His current book project explores the role of religious organizing in labor practices and workers movements. Joh n R e a d e r is Associate Research Fellow with the William Temple Foundation, University of Chester, a parish priest, theological educator, and practical theologian. His publications include A Philosophy of Christian Materialism: Entangled Fidelities and the Public Good, co-authored with Chris Baker and Tom James (2015), Theological Reflection for Human Flourishing: Pastoral Practice and Public Theology, co-authored with Helen Cameron, Victoria Slater, and Christopher Rowland (2012), Christianity and the New Social Order, co-authored with John Atherton and Christopher Baker (2011), and Reconstructing Practical Theology: The Impact of Globalization (2008). J o e r g R i e g e r is Wendland-Cook Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology, SMU. His most recent books include Religion, Theology, and Class (editor, 2013), Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude (with Kwok Pui-lan, 2012), Grace under Pressure: Negotiating the Heart of the Methodist Traditions (2011), Globalization and Theology (2010), No Rising Tide: Theology, Economics, and the Future (2009), and Christ and Empire (2007), with various translations into Portuguese, Spanish, German, and Chinese. Rieger is editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series New Approaches to Religion and Power, and coeditor of the Rowman and Littlefield book series Religion in the Modern World. J e f f r e y W. R o b b i n s is Chair and Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College, where he also serves as

3 Contributors 185 the director of the American Studies program and as the Faculty Mentor for the Allwein Scholars Program. He is a Fellow of the Westar Institute and is an affiliated faculty member of the Global Center for Advanced Studies. He is the author or editor of various books, including most recently Radical Theology: A Theological Method for Change (forthcoming) and Radical Democracy and Political Theology (2011), and with and with Clayton Crockett, Religion, Politics and the Earth: The New Materialism (2012), He is also a Contributing Editor of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and co-editor of the Columbia University Press book series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. E d w a r d Wa g g one r is Assistant Professor of Theology, in the Rt. Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Chair in Episcopal Studies, at Brite Divinity School, in Fort Worth, Texas, where he teaches constructive, systematic, and liberation theologies. His current project is a critique of religious support for militarization in the United States.

4 Index aesthetics, 44 5, 67 72, 81n.42 affect, 29, 51 2n.26, 58, 77 8n.8, 112, 114, , 120 3, 126 7, 165, 168, 173, 180 agency, 6, 8, 128 9, 143 4, 161, 173, 177, of human subject, 6, 16 17, 21 2n.31, 27 8, 32, 57, 76n.4, 168, of matter, 5 6, 31, , , 163, 165 (see also earth, as subject) Ahmed, Sara, 58 62, 120 1, 127, 149 alienation, 42 3, 126, 164, 168 Anderson, Carol, 124 animacy, 106 7, , animals, 6, 15, 64, 86, 94 8, 107, anthropocentricism, 1, 17, 33, 52n.27, 106, 110, 163, 164 art. See aesthetics; creativity assemblage, 16, 21n.22, 89 90, 100, 109, 110, 173 Baker, Chris, 88 9 Bauman, Whitney, 92 3, 99 Benedict XVI, Pope, 158 Bennett, Jane, 5, 86, , 128, 163, 165 Berardi, Franco, 168 Berlant, Lauren, 114, 116, 117 biopolitics, 8, 166, 167 bodies, 14 15, 27 30, 36, 38 9, 49 50, 51 2n.26, 59 62, 64, 67, 72, 74, 110, 140, 173 of earth, 29, 33, 128, 159, 160, 163 as movement, 34 49, normative/non-normative, 60, 65, 67, 106, , 114, , 121 under pressure, 56, 61 3, 67, 70 2, 73, 76n.4, 80n.38, 180 Boutet, Danielle, 70 Braidotti, Rosi, 3, 28 9, 30, 31, 32, 49, 51 2n.26, 86, 91, 144, 154, 162 brain, 15, 33, 37, , 105 7, 109, , 136, 137, 161, 164, becoming brain/feces, 108, 110, 112, 117, 122, 125, 128 9, 163, 165 Bryant, Levi, 91, 98 9, 103 Butler, Judith, , 165 capitalism, 7, 15, 42 3, 64 5, 67, 77 8n.8, 92, 95, 100, 138, 139, 140, 141, 144 5, 148, 150, 157 9, 166, 167. See also neoliberalism Chen, Mel, 106, , Christianity, 10, 15, 39 41, 56, 66, 84 6, 90 1, 100, 102, 106, 121, 141, 144, 168, 175 class, 67 9, 75 6n.3, 80n.37, 81n.42, , 115, 117, 127, n.15, 140, , 152 3, 155 6n.38, 166, 174 climate change, 6, 8, 66, 84, 85, 102 commodity (commodification), 92, 148 9

5 188 Index Cone, James, 117 Connolly, William, 29 30, 31, 32, 49, 86, 100, 142, 162 constructivism, 7 8, 16, 21n.31, 22n.34, 175 conversion (religious), 14, 17, 55 74, , 168 9, 173 imperial, 65, 66, 73 see also energy Coole, Diana, 3 4, 5, 7, 8, 57, 87, 143, 144, 166 creation, act of, 17, 40, 44, 89 doctrine of, 85, 89, 90, 92, 100, 169 see creativity; earth; labor; nature creativity, 15, 35, 42, 44, 45, 70, 106, 161, 168 Crockett, Clayton, 6 7, 8, 9 11, 13, 14, 17, 27, 31, 32, 33, 49, 58, 64 6, 70, 105 7, 108, 109, 111, 142 3, 144 5, 146, 152, 162, 166, 169 Cvetkovich, Ann, 123 dairy industry, 95 7, 99 Dalai Lama, dance, 25 6, 35 8, 41, 44 7, 50, 161, 163, 174, 180 Deleuze, Gilles, 9, 21n.22, 30, 31, 52n.27, 63, 86, 90, 91, 93, 109, 142 democracy, 21n.28, 56, 69 70, 72, 108 depression, 117, 123, 125, 136 8, 153. See also unhappiness Derrida, Jacques, 10, 107 8, 128 desire, 26, 27, 39, 45, 51 2n.26, 58, 68, 74, 77 8n.8, 114, 116, 120 1, 139, 159, 180 determinism, 4, 105 6, 135 8, 139, indeterminacy, 5, 66 7, 70, 72, 79n.28, 87 DiCenso, James, 162 disavowal, 32, 42, 158, 165 Dolphijn, Rick, 2, 8 dualism, 4, 8, 22n.35, 27 8, 69, 87, 105 6, 158 Duncan, Isadora, 35 6 earth, 65 6, 111, 128, 151, 157, 163, 166, 169 desire for, 25 35, 40, 42, 45, 47, 50 as subject, 6, 17, 47, 71, 87, 143, 146 7, ecokinesis, 46 9, 63, 161 ecology, 7, 14 15, 48, 63 4, 57, 70 1, 88, 93 4, 99, Edwards, Jason, 148, 150, 151, 152 emotion. See affect energy, 8 9, 14, 32, 63 7, 72, 73, 87 8, 105 7, 109, 143, 157, 163, 164, 169, 180 crisis, 8, 21n.23, 63 7, 88 environment. See ecology ethics, 6 7, 17, 26, 45, 46, 81n.42, 84, 90, 108, 110, 118, 119, 158, event, 86, 100, 106, 111, 115, 127 failure (politics of), , 120, 127 farming, 15, 88, 94 5, 97 8, 100 feces, 107 8, , 115, 116, 119, n.15, 163 becoming feces (see brain, becoming brain/feces) feminism (feminist), 2, 3, 58 9, 87, 120, 122, 123, 143, 174 Ferguson, MO, Feuerbach, Ludwig, 10 13, 19, 27, 31, 38 42, 43, 44, 46, 49, 138, 142, 147 8, fold, 31, 94, 105 food, 101, , 114, 164 production of (see farming) Foucault, Michel, 140 Francis, Pope, 158

6 Index 189 freedom, 5, 121, 123, 160, 161, 168 Freud, Sigmund, 27, 31, 161 2, Frost, Samantha, 3, 5, 7, 8, 57, 143, 144, 166 future, 60, 62 3, 85, 89, 93, 114 gender, 58 9, 106, 107, 111, 128 God (god), 29, 33, 45 6, 50, 72, 88, 99, 108, 111, 115, 121, 127 9, 141, 180 as projection (see Feuerbach, Ludwig) Graham, Martha, 35 6 Guattari, Félix, 21n.22, 31, 86, 90, 93, 109 Halberstam, Judith, , 131n.15 happiness, 114, 118, 120 3, 125, 126 7, 159 Hardt, Michael, 126 Harvey, Van, 161 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 8 9, 22n.36, 63, 65, 87, 105, 107 8, 128, 136, 142, 160, 161 Heidegger, Martin, 7, 9, 88 hierarchy, 15, 59, 68 9, 70, 73, 86, 90, 91, 98, 99, 107, 108, 109, , 118, 165 Hill, Lauryn, human subject. See agency, of human subject idealism, 12, 17, 27 8, 31, 39, 42, 89, 135 7, , 141 2, 149, 162 ideology, 11, 12, 160, 166, immanence, 8, 9, 18, 28 30, 86, 87, 89, 91, 92 3, 98, 99, 100, 130 1n.15, 149, 162, 169, 180 imperialism, 65, 66, 73, 75, 89, 90, 115, 126, 139, 141, 166 intentionality, 5, 17, 59, 143 interdisciplinary, 2, 175 Isasi-Díaz, Ada María, 150 James, Tom, 88 9 Jameson, Fredric, 167 Jesus, 41, 139, 144, 158 justice, 8, 28, 29, 44, 49, 142, 166, 174, 179, 180 Kolbert, Elizabeth, 88 Kwok, Pui-lan, 80n.34, 109, 112, 115, 119, 127, 151 labor, 15, 42 4, 46, 57, 64, 67 70, 80 1n.38, 87, 97, 111, 119, 126 7, 130 1n.15, , 165 8, 174 Latour, Bruno, 3, 89 90, 91, 93 Lymbery, Philip, 94, 96 machine, 15, 43, 90, 91, 97, , Malabou, Catherine, 3, 8, 105, 160 1, See also plasticity Marx, Karl, 11, 22n.42, 23n.47, 27, 31, 38, 42 4, 45, 46, 49, 87, 138, 140, 142, 145, 147, 148 9, 151, 160, 161 2, 166 materialism as consumerism, 7, 139, dialectical, 87, 136 8, 141 3, 145 6, 152 3, 160, 166 new (overview of), 2 9, 26 32, 57 8, 78n.19, 86 8, 105 7, 136, 141 5, 157 8, old, 26 9, 38 46, 47, 157, 161, 166 matter, as agent. See agency as active, 4, 5, 16, 20n.11 12, 21 2n.31, 22n.35, 28, 57, 109, 118, 128, 143 4, 147, 157, 160 1, 162, 163 5, 173 and spirit or thought, 8, 9, 27 8, 29, 30, 31 2, 63, 87, 105, 159

7 190 Index Mequet, Kevin, 58, 63 6, 79n.27 metaphysics, 3, 15, 92, 98, 99, 157, 160, 169, 174 5, 177 monism, 4, 8, 22n.35 movement. See bodies, as movement; conversion; ecokinesis; energy; matter, as active; organizing multitude, 112, 126 nature, in relation to human culture, 4, 91, 93, 101, 159 Negri, Antonio, 126 neoliberalism, 108, , 118, 127, 137, 141, 145, 153 see also capitalism neurons, 37, 105 6, 136, Niebuhr, Reinhold, 89 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 27, 35, 38, 42, 44 6, 49, 161 nonhuman, 93 4, 98, 101, 109, 120, 144, 163 Northcott, Michael, 85 Obama, Barack, 125 Occupy movement, 80n.34, , , 132n.21, ontology, 6, 11, 16, 21 2n.31, 57, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 94, 99, 106 7, 110, 112, 115, 128, 160 1, 164, 177 optimism, , 125 organizing, 14, 56 7, 61 2, 67 9, 71 2, 73 4, 77n.6, 78n.8, 80n.31, 38, 152, 166, 173 Orsi, Robert, 12 Paul (the Apostle), 141, 144 pig industry, 96 7 plasticity, 21 2n.31, 105 7, 109, 111, 112, 160 1, posthuman, 6, 16. See also agency, of human subject; nonhuman precarity, 16, 108, 113, 116, 117, 127, 165 pressure, as oppression, 56, 62, 76n.4 production, modes of, 14, 42 3, 58, 65, 67 72, 81n.41, 95 6, , 155n.34, 180 queer, 62, 111, 115, , 163 race, 55, 106 7, 110, 118, 128 Rancière, Jacques, 14, 67 71, 80 1 realism, 3, 7, 12, 89, 91 Relational Christian (see Relational Christian Realism) speculative, 3, 8, 98 9 reductionism, 33, 74, 86, 87, 169 relation, 3, 20n.12, 22n.35, 28, 33, 34, 37 8, 42 3, 46, 48, 59 60, 63, 72, 93, 114, 126, 147, , 155 6n.38, 158, 180 Relational Christian Realism, 14, 23n.54, 88 92, relativism, 28, 44, 56, 75, 158 religion, 10 13, 18, 27, 31 3, 35, 61, 64, 71 2, 80 1n.38, 87, 90, 108, 135 6, , 146, 151, 161 2, 175 as affect, 29 as belief, 30, 32, 39, 74, 142 as community, 60 1, 63 and false consciousness, 13, 31, 43 4, 142, 157, 160 and movement, 35, 36 7, 40 1, 46 9, 53n.61 as projection (see Feuerbach, Ludwig) reproduction, 6 7, 57, 62, 67, 86, 110, 113, 147, 148, 150 rhizome, 90, 91, 93 Ricoeur, Paul, 161 Rieger, Joerg, 76n.4, 80n.34, 108, , 115, 119, 127 Robbins, Jeffrey, 2, 6, 7, 9 11, 13, 14, 21n.23 8, 27, 31 2, 33, 49, 63 6, 78n.19, 79n.22 8, 87, 105 7, 108, 109, 111, 142 3, 144 5, 146, 152

8 Index 191 Roberts, Tyler, Rogers-Vaughn, Bruce, 138 scientific thought, 4, 37 8, 57, 72, 84, Scott, Peter M., 85 secular, 13, 27, 29, 33, 158, 169 sexuality, 11, 58 9, 78, 107, 111, 118 Sharf, Robert, 12 shit. See brain, becoming brain/feces; feces solidarity, 108, , , 119, 122, 127, n.15, 158, 165, 180 space, 28, 43, 56, 59 63, 68 9, 71 2, 76n.4, 80n.34, 120, 150, 180 Spinoza, Baruch, 31, 92 spirituality, 9, 28 34, 63, 100, 121 2, 139, see also matter, and spirit or thought Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 107, 128 St. Denis, Ruth, 35 6 teleology (goal), 34, 70, 85, 89, 92, 160, Tillich, Paul, 89 time, 28, 43, 61, 68 9, 71 2, 80n.34, 92, 150, 180 transcendence, 1, 3, 4, 9, 11, 14, 17 18, 26 7, 28 9, 33, 44, 50, 86, 87 8, 91, 93, 95, 130 1, 148 9, 155n.33, 169 truth, 11, 31, 40, 45, 46, 81n.42, 159 unhappiness, 117, 121 3, 125, 127 Vahanian, Noëlle, 99 van der Tuin, Iris, 2 3, 8 Vasquez, Manuel, 87 virtual, 47, 91 waste, 15, 67, 97, 101, 106, 111, 129, 131n.15, 164 5, 169, 174, 180 Whitehead, Alfred North, 86, 93 workers. See labor Ž iž ek, Slavoj, 8, 13, 65, 142