26–28 Sept 2025
University of Münster
Europe/Berlin timezone

I Have Heard from My Mother: An Indonesian Christian Multidirectional Eco-Text of Embodied Healing

27 Sept 2025, 11:20
20m
JO1 (University of Münster)

JO1

University of Münster

Johannisstr. 4, 48143 Münster
20-minute paper Religion and Ecology Religion and Ecology

Speaker

Prof. Septemmy Lakawa (Professor of Mission Studies and Trauma Theology at the Jakarta Theological Seminary, Jakarta)

Description

Using a decolonial approach, this presentation argues that a Christian multidirectional eco-theological perspective is crucial in the interreligious public voice on the role of religion in shaping the ethics of sustainability and the formation of interfaith eco-habituation oriented toward embodied eco-healing. It offers an Indonesian Christian multidirectional eco-text of embodied healing, embedded in Christian, blue, intercultural, and ecofeminist theological perspectives that connect and respond to the interlinked questions of faith, trauma, the sea, and healing in relation to sustainability and eco-habituation. Intersecting a personal story of the sea with Christian rhetoric of healing, a story of interreligious eco-collaboration, women’s narratives of eco-trauma, and an Indonesian Indigenous healing practice for the sea, this presentation proposes a multidirectional eco-text as a source for interreligious public discourse on embodied eco-healing.

Primary author

Prof. Septemmy Lakawa (Professor of Mission Studies and Trauma Theology at the Jakarta Theological Seminary, Jakarta)

Presentation materials