For the Future-Wary: Eco-eschatology in Four Steps

What is it about?

The essay gleans insights from local ecological practices and Islamic sources to speak about global climate futures. It outlines an eco-eschatology, as a disposition and practice of living towards the possibility of the world’s End. Key themes of eco-eschatology—attentiveness to the multispecies world, contemplation of the human responsibility, hopefulness against the odds, and commitment to activism—are resonant with current eco-concerns. What recommends eco-eschatology, however, are due considerations of human contingency and divine agency in the climate disaster that makes us all muslim: subjects rather than sovereigns, at the mercy of what is, at once, beyond us and intimately involved with us. _x000D_ _x000D_

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