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Redemption from Mother Nature to Our Father the Lord?* An Ecofeminist Analysis of Hymns in the Swedish Church Edition of Psalmer i 2000-talet

maria.jansdotter{at}kau.se

The feminist critical deconstruction of Western culture and theology written by Luce Irigaray could be said to represent a certain branch of ecofeminist perspectives on religion. The article analyses the symbolic structures of suppression of women, body and nature and the exaltation of spirit, culture and the androcentric God, inherent in four hymns included in the new supplement (2006) to the book of hymns in the Lutheran Church of Sweden. The analysis shows that these symbolic structures are visible also in these more recent hymns, even though they can be said to also consider and bring out women's experiences. Despite their `feminist' approach, they have not, on any deeper level, affected the subordination of women and the nature-given.

Key Words: ecofeminism • ecofeminist theology • French feminism • hymns • Luce Irigaray

Feminist Theology, Vol. 18, No. 1, 74-91 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0966735009105873


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