Tucker / Grim / Angyal Thomas Berry

A Biography
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54879-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Thomas Berry (1914–2009) was one of the twentieth century’s most prescient and profound thinkers. The first biography of Berry, this book illuminates his remarkable vision and its continuing relevance for achieving transformative social change and environmental renewal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tucker, Mary Evelyn

Grim, John

Angyal, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thomas Berry and the Arc of History
1. An Independent Youth
2. The Call to Contemplation
3. Studying History and Living History
4. The Struggle to Teach
5. From Human History to Earth History
6. From New Story to Universe Story
7. Evoking the Great Work
8. Coming Home
Interlude: The Arc of a Life
9. Narratives of Time
10. Teilhard and the Zest for Life
11. Confucian Integration of Cosmos, Earth, and Humans
12. Indigenous Traditions of the Giving Earth
Epilogue
Appendix: Thomas Berry Timeline, 1914–2009
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tucker Mary Evelyn:
Mary Evelyn Tucker (PhD, Jananese Confucianism, Columbia) is Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Religious Studies, and the Divinity School. She directs the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale with her husband, John Grim. She is also Research Associate at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard. She is the author of several books, including Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase (Open Court, 2003) and The Philosophy of Qi (Columbia, 2007). She is the editor of several of Thomas Berry's books, including The Sacred Universe (Columbia, 2009). She is the coeditor (with Grim) of Ecology and Religion (Island, 2014) and the World Religions and Ecology series (Harvard) and (with Grim and Willis Jenkins) of the Routledge Handbook on Religion and Ecology (2016). She and Grim are the managing trustees of the Thomas Berry Foundation.Grim John:
John Grim (PhD, History of Religions, Fordham) is Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His published works include The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians (Oklahoma, 1983) and (as editor) Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community (Harvard, 2001). His interests focus on Native American and indigenous religions and religion and ecology.Angyal Andrew:
Andrew Angyal (PhD, English, Duke) is Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Elon University. He is the author of biographies of Loren Eiseley (Hall, 1983), Lewis Thomas (Hall, 1989), and Wendell Berry (Hall, 1995). He specializes in environmental humanities, chaos and complexity theory, and ecospirituality.Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim teach at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale Divinity School, where they direct the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. They worked closely with Thomas Berry for over thirty years as his students, editors, and literary executors and are the managing trustees of the Thomas Berry Foundation.

Andrew Angyal is professor emeritus of English and environmental studies at Elon University. He is also the author of Loren Eisley (1983), Lewis Thomas (1989), and Wendell Berry (1995).