The Role of Islam and Christianity in Public Space. Perspectives from Indonesia and Germany

This paper aims to explore how academia can engage with the everyday interreligious and ecological practices of local communities. These practices are intended to tackle the structural causes of religious discrimination and environmental degradation, such as inadequate regulations on extractive development, industrial pollution, and market-driven consumerism. Engaging with existing studies on...

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,...

Indonesian scholarship in theology and religious studies shows a slow shift from focusing on religious moderation to focusing on religious environmentalism. This shift reflects that Indonesians seem less concerned about the threat of religious extremism and more concerned about environmental degradation. Based on recent large-scale research, I will explore awareness of Indonesians about...