Queering Stories of Religious Materialism

This chapter co-creates a story of climate change materialisms and how these may impact religious stories and ways of being in ecologies of place. We move through ecological feminisms and masculinities in utilising a queer ecologies lens to analyse masculinist traditions that have onto-epistemologically shaped worldviews and human behaviours, and which are rapidly changing our species survival on a living planet that must remain below 350 ppm CO₂ for human flourishing as we know it (and that of many Earth Others) to continue. A key inherited binary, including within the Academy, is one of logos/eros. The chapter responds by prioritising an eros-centred story of multispecies belonging grounded within a spirituality of connection to wider Nature. We argue that such groundings and stories are needed within human communities, particularly religious communities, if humans are to have resilient and regenerative lifeways on a materially different, heated, climate-changed planet, which is the future that is now upon us all.