Hell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and more cataclysmic than we can fathom. Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity and biology that awakens a future beyond white male savagery.

Timothy Morton argues that there is an unexpected yet profound relationship between religion and ecology that can guide a planet-scale response to the climate crisis. Spiritual and mystical feelings have a deep resonance with ecological thinking, and together they provide the resources environmentalism desperately needs in this time of climate emergency. Morton finds solutions in a radical revaluation of Christianity, furnishing ecological politics with a language of mercy and forgiveness that draws from Christian traditions without bringing along their baggage. They call for a global environmental movement that fuses ecology and mysticism and puts race and gender front and center. This nonviolent resistance can stage an all-out assault on the ultimate Satanic mill: the concept of master and slave, manifesting today in white supremacy, patriarchy, and environmental destruction. Passionate, erudite, and playful, Hell takes readers on a full-color journey into the contemporary underworld—and offers a surprising vision of salvation.

"An erudite theological meditation….readers will find insights into the ways religion shapes conceptions of science and the self." - Publishers Weekly

"Hell cultivates an experience more than it lays out an argument, as if to chip away at the certainties that have long held Christians captive to the colonialist and capitalist structures that have brought hell into the present. This book is maddening, and therein lies its brilliance." - Christian Century

"Morton invites us on a search for something sexy, life-giving, sacred, and psychedelic. This is a book that is all about feeling, and which draws us into a feeling of the sacredness of life." - Reading Religion

"Hell is utterly impossible to put down just because of the sheer force of its language — one cannot stop because one has to know what the next sentence, the next image, the next paragraph will bring. … violently brilliant, overpowering, magical, mystical, intimate, ineffable, and, yes, holy." - Daily Philosophy

"If you like depth to your revolutionary prose, you should read this book. It’s more daring, fundamental, and radical than any book about the environment written by an ecosocialist. It’s also incomparably more entertaining." - Independent Left

"Timothy Morton has written a book that deserves to occupy people for a long time to come. It deserves the attention of anyone who cares for Blake or for ecology, and anyone who has longed to see a revived truly radical Christianity. Hell is a beautiful book." - Traveller in the Evening

"Hell, if we are serious about changing the trajectory of the universe, this book is a must read. It is not the typical Christian ecology book, it’s not even the typical ecology book. It’s deep. It’s personal. – And it flips our thinking about what’s necessary to save both our planet and our own souls." - ReImagining Christianity