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- Jansdotter Samuelsson, Maria, 1970-
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Ecofeminist theology in a Swedish context : Existing Potentials and Possible Contributions
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In: Ecotheology. - London : Equinox Publishing. - 1363-7320 .- 1743-1689. ; 11.4, s. 481-493
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- The purpose of this article is to analyse the views of materiality in connection with views concerning women in the history of Swedish Lutheran theology and in the common worldview of today’s Swedes. This is related to ecofeminist critiques of the predominant Western worldview and ecofeminist suggestions for doing theology. This article concludes with a discussion of the potential of ecofeminist theology for Sweden today.
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- Sundström, Olle, Docent, 1968-
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Response to Sam Gill’s Article 'What is Mother Earth? A name, a meme, a conspiracy'
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In: Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. - : Equinox Publishing. - 1749-4907 .- 1749-4915. ; 18:2, s. 230-236
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- The author points out that Gill is clearly focused on disproving the historical existence of widespread ideas of a Mother Earth, and of the name Mother Earth and argues that this does not mean that the proper name Mother Earth is completely missing in ethnographic reports prior to Albrecht Dietrich’s Mutter Erdeand the Romanticists of the nineteenth century. The article explores two examples from ethnographies about the Sami people where terms that could reasonably be translated as "Mother Earth" are quite independent of a romantic image of ‘primitive‘ people.
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- von Heland, Jacob, et al.
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Works of doubt and leaps of faith : An Augustinian challenge to Planetary Boundaries
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In: Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. - : Equinox Publishing. - 1749-4907 .- 1749-4915. ; 6:2, s. 151-175
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- This article discusses recent developments among strands of earth systems science as providers of knowledge and advice in emerging global environmental politics from the vantage point of the screenplay Avatar. The field ‘resilience thinking’, emerging as part of systems ecology in the 1970s, pioneered propositions about the critical role of local, traditional, and indigenous knowledge to understand and manage human–nature relations. In more recent years there have been attempts to address sustainability beyond the local in ‘extended resilience enterprise’ including ideas of ‘social ecological systems’ and ‘planetary boundaries’. However, the leap to argue the case of resilience at larger, even planetary scales ran the risk of rendering the diversity of local cultures and knowledge traditions invisible by devising an epistemic space that privileged conventional Western knowledge. Using insights from the scientist Dr. Augustine in the screenplay Avatar, it is possible to discuss historical and current authority claims in local and planetary science policy. While there are good reasons to apply resilience beyond the ‘local’, this could be done in many ways. We contend that the potential virtues of involving resilience thinking with global environmental policies would be better realized if this also meant developing a careful understanding of its moral and epistemological aspects. This understanding need not only cohere with current ecological understandings of the world as living and complex, but also with humanistic recognition of the human stature as many-fold and situated.
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