Forum on Religion and Ecology: Spotlights

4.8 Meditations on Creation with Kate Rigby

November 27, 2023 Sam Mickey Season 4 Episode 8
Forum on Religion and Ecology: Spotlights
4.8 Meditations on Creation with Kate Rigby
Show Notes

This episode features Kate Rigby, PhD, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Cologne. We talk about her many contributions to environmental humanities and ecocriticism. Some of the topics we cover include her work with European Romanticism, decolonization, and the enduring legacy of the ecofeminist philosophy of Val Plumwood. We also discuss her most recent book, Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction (Orbis Books, 2023), where she reflects on the challenges of extinction through theological interpretations of the Biblical account of creation. She draws on an ancient genre of theological writing about the days of creation, the hexameron.