Call for Papers for 2026

The journal Poligrafi, in partnership with the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at PUC–São Paulo, Brazil, invites submissions for a dossier dedicated to offering a critical assessment and new perspectives on the future of ecotheology and on the multiple relations between religion and ecology, including contributions from religious studies. The dossier takes as its historical and hermeneutical horizon the development of Liberation Theology, as well as the ideologies, philosophies, and cosmologies of other religious traditions that engage ecological concerns.

The encyclical Laudato si' has granted greater visibility, legitimacy, and urgency to ecotheological debates, particularly in a global context marked by climate crisis. The multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches developed within theology, religious studies, and the humanities provide essential tools for illuminating ecotheological questions that cut across different religions, with their respective cosmogonies, cosmologies, ritual practices, and forms of socio-environmental engagement.

A liberationist perspective, in turn, makes it possible to critically evaluate the multiple social and political functions of ecotheological narratives, highlighting both their limits and their contributions to the construction of ethical, epistemological, and socio-environmental alternatives.

The causal relations and elective affinities between the fields of religion and ecology open space for problematizing and systematizing central themes, as well as revisiting authors, works, and debates that have shaped academic research, ecclesial reflection, and religious traditions over the past decades.

Key thematic areas include:

• Reimagining Christian ecotheology through Indigenous spiritualities
• Postcolonial ecofeminist perspectives on ecological justice
• Ecological justice in the context of accelerated AI and digitalization
• Critical ecotheological perspectives on contemporary environmental crises
• Religion and ecology: theoretical, methodological, and critical approaches
• Liberation theology and its ecological dimensions
• Comparative perspectives across religious traditions on ecology
• Cosmologies, cosmogonies, and ecological thought in religious contexts
• Ritual practices and socio-environmental engagement
• Ethical, epistemological, and socio-environmental alternatives within ecotheology
• Critical reassessments of key authors, works, and debates in religion and ecology

Deadline for submissions: 30/06/2026