2025/01/01 by Ely Orrego Torres · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies #Religion, Ecology, and Ethics #Theological Perspectives and Practices
paper · pdf · doi:10.5840/pga20255281
openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/05/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This paper centers voices that have not yet been explored in academic debates over political theologies. It does so by relocating the central terms of contestation in ecofeminist ideas of the Americas for the sake of exploring possibilities of building transnational solidarities to propose alternative notions of “the political.” How can we ground “political theologies” in feminist, ecological, and Latin American epistemologies? How can Latin American ecofeminist liberation theologies contribute to illuminating and addressing the politics of our time? The first section delves into the different conceptual priorities of ecofeminism and ecofeminist theologies in the context of Latin America to argue that sharp distinctions between these projects should be blurred. The second section challenges the ideas of “First” or “Third” world as proposed by Chandra Talpade Mohanty as potentially causing obstacles to building transnational feminist solidarities in a global context. The third section examines the collective, Con-spirando, in Chile as an exemplar of new possibilities for how reshaping political theology can enrich resistance and solidarity in the religious and spiritual context of Latin America and beyond.