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“Our Sister, Mother Earth”: Solidarity and Familial Ecology in Laudato Si’
Author(s) -
Flores Nichole M.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/jore.12227
Subject(s) - solidarity , subordination (linguistics) , ecology , sociology , context (archaeology) , articulation (sociology) , social ecology , human ecology , environmental ethics , gender studies , geography , biology , philosophy , law , political science , linguistics , archaeology , politics
Laudato si’ , with its articulation of a familial ecology reflecting Francis’s Latin American context, expands the subject of solidarity in Catholic social teaching and thought. Yet, this ecological vision of family fails to attend to the problem of gender subordination latent in Catholic social teaching, including in its approaches to ecology. A vision of solidarity that eradicates gender and ecological subordination must elaborate a familial ecology characterized by both mercy and equality.