Panel: MAPPING ECO(THEO)LOGICAL IMAGINARIES. RELIGION AND UTOPIA IN TIMES OF ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSFORMATION.



267.2 - « SOLIDARITY AS A VISION OF FEMINIST ECOTHEOLOGY »

AUTHORS:
Jäger S. (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena ~ Jena ~ Germany)
Text:
The planned contribution would like to examine the role of eschatological visions for feminist ecotheology. This is because texts of feminist ecotheology are characterised by strong eschatological visions of a better world. Two thinkers in particular will be analysed: the American Catherine Keller and the German Dorothee Sölle. For Catherine Keller the descriptive and normative potentials of religious imaginaries and utopias can help to shape both our understanding of the environment and our vision for environmental transformation. Dorothee Sölle examines intensively how the idea of the Kingdom of God could inspire visions of an ecologically fairer world. The lecture will now focus in particular on the role solidarity plays in the concrete realisation of this theological approach to utopia.