Religion and Public Agenda: Complexity and the Challenges of the Common Home
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 9711
Special Issue Editors
Interests: systematic theology; theological epistemology; theology and literature; ancient Christian authors and classical studies; complexity; common home issues; public theology; archaeology of theo-logical knowledge
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: theological epistemology; theology of religions; christology; theology of experience and of space
Interests: new theories of religion; religious identities and institutions; religion and cultural transmission; performativities and aesthetics of religion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Common Home is a concept shared by the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Encyclical Letter Laudato si’ (Ls) about the care of the Common Home, published months earlier, and correlating the SDG's with the Laudato si' goals (LsG’s). The new scenario of COVID-19 and humanitarian crisis demands even more the adoption of a public agenda for a collective political and social effort to overcome the cultural contradictions of economic determinism and calls for shared responsibility, supported by a culture of solidarity and universal fraternity. At times like these, religions have a great potential to increase empathy and social cooperation in public agendas. They are a possible source of wisdom, valid for building consensus on life in common, especially in the context of post-secular societies. The cultural dimension of these crises, as well as its social and ecological dimensions, is evoked by Ls as a way of resisting the monopoly of the technocratic paradigm and its globalizing and mass modes of production, rooted in epistemological anthropocentrism and the throwaway culture, which has been nourished by a consumerist. Ls thus calls for a bold cultural revolution grounded on the interdependence of scientific and economic solutions, education and culture, and the integration in public discourse of cultural diversity, art, poetry, and expressions of inner life.
This Special Issue aims to offer an interdisciplinary toolbox to think about Religion in the context of this Public Agenda. It incorporates the 2030 Agenda into religious culture, targeting three mainlines:
- The epistemological models that integrate positively the religious field within the diverse areas of knowledge, aiming for a review of ethical and mental outlooks, in an intercultural key and in search for cooperative solutions for common problems.
- The creation of an ecological culture that makes explicit the link of interdependence between SDG's and LsG's through different languages in order to unite critical sense and common sense.
- Everyday practices, which brings about the need to think about vulnerability as a central category for an ethics and aesthetics of care.
- Biblical sources of Common Home;
- Theopoetics of Common Home;
- Ecofeminism;
- Ecoculture;
- Digital Ecology;
- Human Rights as Ecoemergency;
- Spirituality of Common Home;
- Integral Health and Common Home;
- Ecopolitics;
- Aesthetics and Performativity of Common Home.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Theology and Religious Studies;
- Philosophy;
- Literary Studies;
- Arts Studies and Cinema;
- Communication Studies;
- Social and Political Sciences;
- Digital Ecology;
- Health sciences;
- Cultural Studies;
- Environmental Law.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Alex Villas Boas
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Palma
Prof. Dr. Alfredo Teixeira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- common home
- complexity
- public theology
- religious studies
- interculturality
- 2030 agenda
- Laudato si’
- sustainable development goals
- Pope Francis
- transdisciplinarity
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