ABSTRACT
The modern Western world and its globalised effects have created a global community that moves at fossil-fuelled speed. Even for those who stay in one place, that local place is intersected by flows of energy, materials and information on a daily basis. Arguably, this fossil-fuelled speed is at the heart of planetary problems, social justice issues, climate weirding, resource extraction and species extinction. This chapter argues for an understanding of religion as those things that help us to slow down our pace and ‘re-attune' to the many earth bodies that make up the planet. Finally, such re-attunement should take place within the context of a Critical Planetary Romanticism that acknowledges: 1) the agency, vitality and value of all members of the planetary community; 2) our contexts as creatures among creatures who live in specific places and understand that our specific places are interrelated with all other places through planetary flows of energy, materials and information; and 3) that every embodiment experiences the planetary community and therefore we need multiple critical perspectives in order to better re-attune to bodies in ways that promote more justice and planetary flourishing.
