{"product_id":"inhabitance-jennifer-r-ayres-9781481311373","title":"Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike other creatures, human beings are inhabitants of their ecosystems. But are humans \u003ci\u003egood\u003c\/i\u003e inhabitants? According to Jennifer Ayres, the way of inhabitance is stubbornly elusive. The work of understanding, loving, and tending God's world is constrained by patterns of alienation, exploitation, and systemic neglect and injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFaced daily by evidence of ecological death and decay, Ayres determines that this important work of inhabitance is constantly threatened by ecological despair. Ecological despair stems from alienation from the natural world, acute and generational grief resulting from loss of home places, and, for many, an overwhelming guilt at having been complicit in the planet's suffering. In \u003ci\u003eInhabitance: Ecological Religious Education\u003c\/i\u003e, Ayres proposes a solution to this increasing alienation: the way of inhabitance. Just as other animals live and thrive within their ecosystems, so do humans live in a habitat created, sustained, and loved by God. This God perpetually invites us to become better inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany religious communities already cultivate inhabitance as a way of life, work that they consider to be central to their deepest theological commitments. \u003ci\u003eInhabitance\u003c\/i\u003e examines a diverse array of such practices that foster more intentional engagement with the particular places in which people live. Ecological religious education, Ayres demonstrates, nurtures a disposition of loving commitment toward God's creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eInhabitance \u003c\/i\u003edemands a willingness to love other beings and a willingness to courageously encounter the human and ecological suffering of the world and be fully present to that suffering. And even as humans live more lovingly, courageously, and attentively within their particular places, their lives are opened up to the deepest sources of human well-being--for when God's world around us flourishes, so do we.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer R. Ayres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1481311379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781481311373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baylor University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Jennifer R. Ayres","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44047079014655,"sku":"9781481311373","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_08051839-c4d0-4fc3-8792-54f786ed6a4e.jpg?v=1684988133","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inhabitance-jennifer-r-ayres-9781481311373","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}