As a human community we are living through a time of profound questioning as we reconnect ourselves to the sacred sources of life, placing us as a thread woven into the fabric of life in which it is essential that we see ourselves in all our...
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As a human community we are living through a time of profound questioning as we reconnect ourselves to the sacred sources of life, placing us as a thread woven into the fabric of life in which it is essential that we see ourselves in all our diversity, so we can move away from the cultural and religious hegemony imposed throughout the history of the colonisation of Abya YalaJ It would, therefore, be both healthy and healing if we were not to consider the Bible as the one and only word of God, so that we may fully recognise in other texts, words, fabrics, songs, memories, tales and dances, the richness of the many languages of the Mystery of Life; variously experienced, embedded and named by the peoples linked to its ancient past and which have allowed them to continue being and existing.
This article reviews current trends in ecological biblical hermeneutics and argues for a more expansive approach. As an alternative to the Earth Bible Project's "ecojustice principles," the Earth Charter is a cross-disciplinary and interreligious...
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This article reviews current trends in ecological biblical hermeneutics and argues for a more expansive approach. As an alternative to the Earth Bible Project's "ecojustice principles," the Earth Charter is a cross-disciplinary and interreligious ethical framework for ecological biblical interpretation. We contend that ecological biblical hermeneutics may benefit from incorporating interdisciplinary insights and engaging with a variety of approaches and methodologies. As an example, we argue for ecolonialism, that is, an ecological approach that incorporates insights from postcolonial biblical hermeneutics. An ecolonial lens is applied to the The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008), a Norwegian movie about a Sami uprising in northern Norway in the 1850s. We show how the film's use of the Bible and biblical quotations brings out not only the colonial implications of the Norwegian state church and its minister but also the devastating effects of Norwegian colonization of the Sami population on ecological issues.
