Beyond Laudato Si': Ecotheology, Equitable Futures, and the Papal Turn to the Earth

Engages with the prehistory and contemporary afterlives of Laudato Si’ through critical and constructive engagement with the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences using an intersectional, anti-colonial feminist methodologyLaudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis’s encyclical on ecology, was addressed to "every person living on the planet" and released in the of summer 2015 to critical skepticism and enthusiastic acclaim.From the professoriate to political pundits, from the apathetic to the atheistic, from Harvard economists to secular Jewish feminist thought leaders, Laudato Si’ (LS) got people’s attention.It remains the most important legacy of Pope Francis and stands as a historical referent of global moral clarity in a period of ecological degradations, racial capitalism, and widespread social suffering. Beyond Laudato Si’ advances an intersectional feminist, anti-colonial method to explore the LS’s prehistory, its claims, its impact, its key contributions,