Post-secular Nature and the New Nature Writing

With the turn of the twenty-first century, a group of writers began rehabilitating British nature writing and the voice of the individual interacting with it, producing what has become collectively known as the new nature writing. This examination considers how this literature represents a post-secu...

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Published in:Christianity & literature
Main Author: Hampton, Alexander J. B. ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2018]
In: Christianity & literature
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
CD Christianity and Culture
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
TJ Modern history
Further subjects:B MACFARLANE, Robert
B Nature
B MACDONALD, Helen, 1970-
B Natural History Authorship
B Postsecularism
B Helen Macdonald
B new nature writing
B NATURAL history literature
B Robert Macfarlane
B NATURE writers
B Post-secular
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Summary:With the turn of the twenty-first century, a group of writers began rehabilitating British nature writing and the voice of the individual interacting with it, producing what has become collectively known as the new nature writing. This examination considers how this literature represents a post-secular re-conceptualization of our relationship to nature. The new nature writing challenges a key element of the secular social imaginary, namely the subject-centered, immanence-bound, disenchanted representation of nature, which sets the self over and above nature, destabilizing existing dichotomies, and generating a multiplicity of hybridized possibilities that re-conceptualize our relationship to nature.
ISSN:2056-5666
Contains:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0148333117735878