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Suffering and Evil in Nature: Comparative Responses from Ecstatic Naturalism and Healing Cultures, edited by Joseph E. Harroff and Jea Sophia Oh, provides many unique experiments in thinking through the implications of ecstatic naturalism. This collection of essays directly addresses the importance of values sustaining cultures of healing and offers a variety of perspectives inducing radical hope requisite for cultivating moral and political imaginings of democracy-to-come as a regulative ideal. Through its invocation of "healing cultures," the collection foregrounds the significance of the active, gerundive, and processual nature of ecstatic naturalism as a creative horizon for realizing values of intersubjective flourishing, while also highlighting the significance of culture as an always unfinished project of making discursive, interpretive and ethical space open for the subaltern and voiceless. Each contribution gives voice to the tensions and contradictions felt by living participants in emergent communities of interpretation-namely those who risk replacing authoritarian tendencies and fascist prejudices with a faith in future-oriented archetypes of healing to make possible truth and reconciliation between oppressor and oppressed, victimizers and victims of violence and trauma. These essays then let loose the radical hope of healing from suffering in a ceaseless community of communication within a horizon of creative democratic interpretation.

Joseph E. Harroff teaches philosophy and religion at American University.

Jea Sophia Oh is Professor of Philosophy at West Chester University, USA.

Desmond Coleman is a Mellon Just Transformations postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He has contributed chapters to the edited volumes, Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Religious Studies in a Transitional Age (2023) and Ecstatic Naturalism and Healing Cultures: Comparative Responses to Suffering and Evil in Nature, (2021).

Marilynn Lawrence teaches philosophy at Immaculata University.