Abstract

HOEL, Nina. Crochet Methodology: Thinking Creatively about and with the Study of Religion in the Anthropocene. AJGR [online]. 2023, vol.29, n.2, pp.76-103. ISSN 2707-2991.  http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/ajgr.v29i2.2800.

What stories of religion matter in the age of the Anthropocene? This paper begins by situating the Abundance Crochet Coral Reef, an installation of crocheted coralline landscapes exhibited at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, as a methodological motif and enactment to think creatively about and with the study of religion in the Anthropocene. Journeying through the current trends in various fields in the study of religion that are responsive to Anthropocene concerns, I argue that there is a growing body of scholarly work that troubles the dualisms and hierarchies of human-nature and nature-culture that have informed, and indeed, dominated, conceptualizations about religion and the study of religion. Finally, I turn to feminist theory to continue to in-tune religion storytelling (the study of religion) to the challenges of the Anthropocene. Drawing inspiration from the Abundance Crochet Coral Reef, I explore the concept of kinship to open creative vistas for methodological enrichment in the study of religion.

Keywords : Anthropocene; the study of religion; crochet methodology; feminist theory; kinship.

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