Our Common, Bordered Home
Laudato si’ and the Promise of an Integrated Migration-Ecological Ethics
By (author) Gary Slater
Paperback (Published)
(November 2023)
ISBN: 9783506791658
6.1 x 9.25 inches
Price: $119.00
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This book places Pope Francis’s landmark 2015 encyclical Laudato si’ at the center of an effort to integrate the ethics of migration and ecological devastation. These issues represent two of the great planetary challenges of our time. They are also deeply connected and likely to get worse in the coming decades. As addressed to these issues, the book advances two core arguments. First, Laudato si’ and its moral vision of integral ecology represent a culturally creative response to these challenges whose potential for application has not yet been fulfilled. Second, fulfilling the encyclical’s promise requires attention to divisions alongside connections. In particular, it requires attention to borders. As sites of power manifested, of families separated, of alienation and friendship, of hope and hopelessness, and of the limits of civil and political order, borders are both a challenge that must be engaged and an opportunity to apply Francis’s moral vision in concrete contexts.
Gary Slater is a postdoctoral researcher at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. He writes on religious ethics, with particular interests in environmental ethics, the ethics of migration, and international borders. These topics combine in a DFG grant project (Borders: Religious, Political, and Planetary) and a Humboldt Fellowship monograph (Our Common, Bordered Home). He is the editor of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy.
- By (author) Gary Slater
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