Contemporary Icons of Endangered Species: Angela Manno and the Kinship of All Creation
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Abstract
This presentation will introduce artist Angela Manno’s icons of endangered species, and explore how her creative re-visioning of the icon shakes up Christian anthropocentrism and pushes us towards a consideration not just of the kinship of all creation but also the holy sainthood of the most vulnerable (endangered) of God’s creatures. Conversation partners in spirituality, animism, and kinship include Elizabeth Johnson, A. E. Orobator, S.J., and Robin Wall Kimmerer. I argue that Manno’s unique vision of endangered species as icons has opened up space for a renewed spirituality of the flourishing of all creatures together in the Anthropocene.
Presenter Biography
Colleen Mary Carpenter teaches at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University in Minnesota. A graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School, she has served as the Sister Mona Riley Chair of the Humanities at St. Catherine University and Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies at Carleton College.