The research project, titled Stairways to Heaven: Embodied Imaginations of Sustainable Futures in Religious Communities, will investigate the meaning and potential of prefigurative religious communities for the imagination of sustainable futures and the creation of conditions for good future life.
It aims to highlight the potential of religious communities in societal change and to make an innovative contribution to philosophical and theological thinking about prefigurative politics.
The team consists of three senior members of NOSTER – Peter-Ben Smit (VU Amsterdam/UU), Mariecke van den Berg (VU Amsterdam/RU) and Suzan Sierksma-Agteres (PThU) – as well as scholars from other disciplines – Elco van Burg (VU Amsterdam), Mathijs van de Sande (RU), Klazina Staat (VU Amsterdam), and Dinah Wouters (UU/RUG).
More about this Research Project
Start/end Date
2023-2025
Team
Leader: Prof. Dr. Peter-Ben Smit
Team: Prof. Dr. Mariecke van den Berg, Prof. Dr. Elco van Burg, Dr. Klazina Staat, Dr. Mathijs van den Sande, Dr. Dinah Wouters, Nikki Apeldoorn.
Fund
NOSTER