{"id":10312,"date":"2016-09-30T16:25:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redeemer.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8604"},"modified":"2020-03-18T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:11:13","slug":"ecoatwood-meets-ecochristianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeemer.ca\/resound\/ecoatwood-meets-ecochristianity\/","title":{"rendered":"EcoAtwood meets EcoChristianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do Margaret Atwood, Christian creation care, and the apocalypse have in common? If you\u2019re familiar with Atwood\u2019s past criticism of organized religion, you might be expecting a punchline. But in fact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeemer.ca\/academics\/offices-and-departments\/our-faculty\/deborah-bowen\/\">Dr. Deborah Bowen<\/a>, professor of English, has spent the last year researching the connections between them as part of her 2015 Zylstra grant project: \u201cEcoAtwood meets EcoChristianity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSome environmentalists see being hopeful as kind of a cop out, a way of escaping reality. I don\u2019t have that option as a person of faith. We\u2019re called to live in hope.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bowen employs Atwood\u2019s dystopian, post-apocalyptic <a href=\"http:\/\/margaretatwood.ca\/maddaddam-trilogy\/\">MaddAddam trilogy<\/a> as a vehicle for exploring our culture\u2019s anxiety over environmental apocalypse and how the Christian story might speak to these concerns. \u201cThe Christian story ends with an apocalypse which heralds a renewed earth for redeemed people,\u201d Bowen notes. Hope is at the centre of Bowen\u2019s research, something she knows is an anomaly. \u201cSome environmentalists see being hopeful as kind of a cop out, a way of escaping reality. I don\u2019t have that option as a person of faith. We\u2019re called to live in hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Zylstra grant provided Bowen with the time and resources needed to strengthen her research agenda.\u00a0She has since gone on to win a prestigious 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca\/home-accueil-eng.aspx\">Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)<\/a> Grant, awarded at$15,885.\u00a0Research that began as an exploration of hopeful connections between the literary, the ecological, and the divine has evolved into a government-funded project investigating agency and hope in environmentally-focused poetry in southern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Deborah Bowen explores environmental apocalypse and hope in Margaret Atwood\u2019s &#8220;MaddAddam&#8221; 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