RT Article
T1 Theological Imagination in a Throwaway Society: Contending with Waste
JF Theology today
VO 78
IS 2
SP 158
OP 169
A1 Hearlson, Christy Lang
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1762640295
AB This article treats the topic of consumer waste by beginning with a contemporary story that illustrates the reality and complex dynamics of throwaway culture. Noting the dynamic quality of waste, it offers a brief review of the development of throwaway society. Beginning in a preindustrial world in which the battle against “moth and rust” required habits of reuse and repair, or what cultural historian Susan Strasser refers to as bricolage, it then traces changes in “natural” and “temporal” imaginaries, as well as economic and technological factors, that rendered obsolete the cultural skills and imaginative capacities of bricolage. Having argued that forgetting and loss of imagination are key to waste-making, it offers two Christian responses that schools and faith communities might practice: “material anamnesis” and “redemptive vision.”
K1 ecological conversion
K1 Bricolage
K1 theological imagination
K1 throwaway
K1 waste
DO 10.1177/00405736211004871