Inculturation and environmental struggles: Catholic Church, public sphere and anthropocentric preservationism in Brazil

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Autor(a) principal: Rufino, Marcos Pereira
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Anuário Antropológico (Online)
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/anuarioantropologico/article/view/52031
Resumo: The article investigates the growing convergence between the Catholic Church and environmentalism in Brazil, aiming to demonstrate – through an anthropological reading of the Fraternity Campaigns that address sustainability and environmental crisis issues – how the national episcopate has been striving to reinvent the theology of inculturation as a system that incorporates, among other elements, the “natural world” as well. The hypothesis is suggested that the Church has been producing a symbolic narrative that articulates the fundamental elements of its theological conception of Creation with the set of social representations we know as ecology. This ecotheological narrative promotes a new perspective for interpreting biblical texts, seeking to recreate the relationships between Christianity and “nature” by projecting the origins of a certain Catholic environmental activism into a distant past. Despite being marked by anthropocentric categories, this new apostolic narrative seeks to assert, in favor of the Catholic Church and its pastoral work, a prominent position in the public sphere among the other relevant agents and institutions involved in present-day environmental struggles.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Inculturation and environmental struggles: Catholic Church, public sphere and anthropocentric preservationism in Brazil
Inculturation and environmental struggles: Catholic Church, public sphere and anthropocentric preservationism in Brazil
title Inculturation and environmental struggles: Catholic Church, public sphere and anthropocentric preservationism in Brazil
spellingShingle Inculturation and environmental struggles: Catholic Church, public sphere and anthropocentric preservationism in Brazil
Rufino, Marcos Pereira
igreja catolica
esfera publica
ecoteologia
ambientalismo
natureza
inculturação
catholic church
public sphere
ecotheology
environmentalism
nature
inculturation
title_short Inculturation and environmental struggles: Catholic Church, public sphere and anthropocentric preservationism in Brazil
title_full Inculturation and environmental struggles: Catholic Church, public sphere and anthropocentric preservationism in Brazil
title_fullStr Inculturation and environmental struggles: Catholic Church, public sphere and anthropocentric preservationism in Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Inculturation and environmental struggles: Catholic Church, public sphere and anthropocentric preservationism in Brazil
title_sort Inculturation and environmental struggles: Catholic Church, public sphere and anthropocentric preservationism in Brazil
author Rufino, Marcos Pereira
author_facet Rufino, Marcos Pereira
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Rufino, Marcos Pereira
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv igreja catolica
esfera publica
ecoteologia
ambientalismo
natureza
inculturação
catholic church
public sphere
ecotheology
environmentalism
nature
inculturation
topic igreja catolica
esfera publica
ecoteologia
ambientalismo
natureza
inculturação
catholic church
public sphere
ecotheology
environmentalism
nature
inculturation
description The article investigates the growing convergence between the Catholic Church and environmentalism in Brazil, aiming to demonstrate – through an anthropological reading of the Fraternity Campaigns that address sustainability and environmental crisis issues – how the national episcopate has been striving to reinvent the theology of inculturation as a system that incorporates, among other elements, the “natural world” as well. The hypothesis is suggested that the Church has been producing a symbolic narrative that articulates the fundamental elements of its theological conception of Creation with the set of social representations we know as ecology. This ecotheological narrative promotes a new perspective for interpreting biblical texts, seeking to recreate the relationships between Christianity and “nature” by projecting the origins of a certain Catholic environmental activism into a distant past. Despite being marked by anthropocentric categories, this new apostolic narrative seeks to assert, in favor of the Catholic Church and its pastoral work, a prominent position in the public sphere among the other relevant agents and institutions involved in present-day environmental struggles.
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