RT Article
T1 Converting the Imagination through Visual Images in Ecological Religious Education
JF Religious education
VO 116
IS 2
SP 129
OP 141
A1 Hearlson, Christy Lang
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1753130344
AB Global ecological crisis calls for humanity's “ecological conversion,” as well as deconversion from consumerism as a faith system. Conversion involves the imagination, which suggests an important role for visual images in religious education for ecological conversion. Yet educational proposals for deconversion from consumer culture have neglected the potential of the visual image. This essay focuses on two such proposals, from religious educator and practical theologian Katherine Turpin and Christian philosopher James K.A. Smith, both of whom focus on practice over image. Acknowledging the liabilities of image, the essay describes pedagogical exercises that employ images to support ecological conversion.
K1 Consumerism
K1 visual image
K1 Imagination
K1 ecological conversion
DO 10.1080/00344087.2020.1863070