“Images, Metaphors, and Models in the Quest for Sustainability”

Nuestro profesor Jaime Tatay, SJ participó en el XIX Congreso de la Sociedad Europea para el Estudio de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESSSAT, por sus siglas en inglés), desarrollado del 4 al 8 de mayo de 2022 en la ciudad noruega de Ålesund.

Las intervenciones de este Congreso son recogidas en la publicación “Issues in Science and Theology: Creative Pluralism?” (Springer 2022), dentro de la cual se encuentra la de nuestro profesor, titulada “Images, Metaphors, and Models in the Quest for Sustainability: The Overlapping Geography of Scientific and Religious Insights”.

A continuación, ofrecemos el resumen publicado en inglés:

There is a renewed interest in the role religions and Faith Based Organizations play in the global quest for sustainability, as well as in the possibilities and limits of interreligious dialogue related to one of the main challenges of our time: the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in the UN Agenda 2030. In fact, the academic disciplines of interreligious studies and environmental sustainability share substantial common ground: scholars in both fields claim interdisciplinarity, activist tendencies, and relationality to be key characteristics of their respective disciplines. For these practical reasons science and religion, two very relevant global actors, should think and act together to bridge the gap between shallow and deep views on sustainability. Moreover, a pragmatic convergence and a strategic alliance between world religions and sustainability sciences could accelerate the commitment to environmental stewardship. The analogous and partly overlapping metaphors, concepts, and images used in both religious and scientific discourses on sustainability point towards a potentially fruitful dialogue as well as towards an emerging shared narrative that could lead to joint action. In this paper, I identify and describe ten overlapping scientific and religious insights on sustainability.

Más información sobre la publicación, aquí.

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