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    Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education
    Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education
    Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education
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    Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education

    By Jennifer R. Ayres

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    Like other creatures, human beings are inhabitants of their ecosystems. But are humans  good inhabitants? According to Jennifer Ayres, the way of inhabitance is stubbornly elusive. The work of understanding, loving, and tending God’s world is constrained by patterns of alienation, exploitation, and systemic neglect and injustice.

    Faced daily by evidence of ecological death and decay, Ayres determines that this important work of inhabitance is constantly threatened by ecological despair. Ecological despair stems from alienation from the natural world, acute and generational grief resulting from loss of home places, and, for many, an overwhelming guilt at having been complicit in the planet’s suffering. In  Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education, Ayres proposes a solution to this increasing alienation: the way of inhabitance. Just as other animals live and thrive within their ecosystems, so do humans live in a habitat created, sustained, and loved by God. This God perpetually invites us to become better inhabitants.

    Many religious communities already cultivate inhabitance as a way of life, work that they consider to be central to their deepest theological commitments.  Inhabitance examines a diverse array of such practices that foster more intentional engagement with the particular places in which people live. Ecological religious education, Ayres demonstrates, nurtures a disposition of loving commitment toward God’s creation.

    Inhabitance demands a willingness to love other beings and a willingness to courageously encounter the human and ecological suffering of the world and be fully present to that suffering. And even as humans live more lovingly, courageously, and attentively within their particular places, their lives are opened up to the deepest sources of human well-being—for when God’s world around us flourishes, so do we.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaylor University Press
    Release dateJan 9, 2020
    ISBN9781481311397
    Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education
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    Jennifer R. Ayres

    Jennifer R. Ayres is Assistant Professor of Religious Education and Director of the Program in Religious Education at Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

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