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Mother Earth, Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies by Sophia Chirongoma (2021, Hardcover)

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Number of Pages: 196. Weight: 0 lbs. Publication Date: 2021-06-15. Publisher: Fortress Academic.

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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-101978711611

ISBN-139781978711617

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Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMother Earth, Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies

Publication Year2021

SubjectChristian Theology / Systematic, Gender Studies, Christian Theology / Liberation

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science

AuthorSophia Chirongoma

FormatHardcover

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Item Weight16.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

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LCCN2021-007294

ReviewsMother Earth is ailing and we who live on and with her are causing her great distress. The ecofeminist essays in this book written by members of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians clearly describe her human-induced pain. The authors use feminist liberation hermeneutics in a variety of ways as they interrogate cultural issues in diverse African contexts. This is a unique book in African feminist scholarship and is highly recommended., Mother Earth, Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies is a deep and intense cry from the womb of Africa.Chronicling the faithful and persistent pilgrimage of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians to the Promised Land of true liberation and freedom in every sphere of life and living on the planet, this landmark collection of essays is informed and visionary. It is churned in the crucible of an incisive socio-political and prophetic imagination.Bravely bearing witness to a pernicious history of diminishment and erosion of true personhood in Africa, through the blight of colonial oppression and discrimination, poverty, wars, degradation of our common environment, and the absence of basic amenities for dignified, everyday living, this book is a CRY OF THE EARTH for urgent change and transformation. Grounded and rooted in a robust contextual theology, it is a compelling call for the restoration and healing of humanity in the image of God., Mother Earth, Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies is a deep and intense cry from the womb of Africa. Chronicling the faithful and persistent pilgrimage of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians to the Promised Land of true liberation and freedom in every sphere of life and living on the planet, this landmark collection of essays is informed and visionary. It is churned in the crucible of an incisive socio-political and prophetic imagination. Bravely bearing witness to a pernicious history of diminishment and erosion of true personhood in Africa, through the blight of colonial oppression and discrimination, poverty, wars, degradation of our common environment, and the absence of basic amenities for dignified, everyday living, this book is a CRY OF THE EARTH for urgent change and transformation. Grounded and rooted in a robust contextual theology, it is a compelling call for the restoration and healing of humanity in the image of God., The current global ecological crisis brings us full circle to review our theological lenses of salvation and liberation in the context of global power relations of ancient, modern, and contemporary times. This volume brings the inter-sectionality of various layers of history, gender, race, and religions to interrogate the past and the present that has brought us to the current global ecological crisis. The chapters in this volume endeavor to focus our theological acts as acts of healing the Earth and re-imagining what constitutes liberation and salvation. Given the growing global interconnection, characterized by neo-liberal economic policies, driven by the maximization of profit above ethical care for the sanctity of all life, this volume is an important voice of prophecy in the quest of healing and preserving creation community., "Mother Earth, Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies is a deep and intense cry from the womb of Africa. Chronicling the faithful and persistent pilgrimage of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians to the Promised Land of true liberation and freedom in every sphere of life and living on the planet, this landmark collection of essays is informed and visionary. It is churned in the crucible of an incisive socio-political and prophetic imagination. Bravely bearing witness to a pernicious history of diminishment and erosion of true personhood in Africa, through the blight of colonial oppression and discrimination, poverty, wars, degradation of our common environment, and the absence of basic amenities for dignified, everyday living, this book is a CRY OF THE EARTH for urgent change and transformation. Grounded and rooted in a robust contextual theology, it is a compelling call for the restoration and healing of humanity in the image of God." --Betty Govinden, founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians "Mother Earth is ailing and we who live on and with her are causing her great distress. The ecofeminist essays in this book written by members of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians clearly describe her human-induced pain. The authors use feminist liberation hermeneutics in a variety of ways as they interrogate cultural issues in diverse African contexts. This is a unique book in African feminist scholarship and is highly recommended." --Sue Rakoczy, IHM, University of KwaZulu-Natal "The current global ecological crisis brings us full circle to review our theological lenses of salvation and liberation in the context of global power relations of ancient, modern, and contemporary times. This volume brings the inter-sectionality of various layers of history, gender, race, and religions to interrogate the past and the present that has brought us to the current global ecological crisis. The chapters in this volume endeavor to focus our theological acts as acts of healing the Earth and re-imagining what constitutes liberation and salvation. Given the growing global interconnection, characterized by neo-liberal economic policies, driven by the maximization of profit above ethical care for the sanctity of all life, this volume is an important voice of prophecy in the quest of healing and preserving creation community." --Musa Wenkosi Dube, University of Botswana; Continental Coordinator for the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians "The ecological crisis cannot be seen as a binary. The compounding effects on people minoritized in multiple ways cannot be ignored in the proposed solutions to this crisis. If these are ignored, they will fail or at best unequally succeed. All this gives urgency to listening to the voices of those most affected. This is shown clearly by the important voices of the scholars in the present volume who offer profound insights from their position and experiences as African women." -- Angelican & Episcopal History, The ecological crisis cannot be seen as a binary. The compounding effects on people minoritized in multiple ways cannot be ignored in the proposed solutions to this crisis. If these are ignored, they will fail or at best unequally succeed. All this gives urgency to listening to the voices of those most affected. This is shown clearly by the important voices of the scholars in the present volume who offer profound insights from their position and experiences as African women.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal261.88096

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Mother Earth and Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies Sophia Chirongoma and Esther Mombo Part 1: Introductory Mapping 1. 30 Years of African Women's Liberation Theology Esther Mombo and Sophia Chirongoma Part 2: Envisioning Mother Africa's Liberation through Textual Exploration 2. Sisters of the Soil ... Surviving Collective Cultural Traumatization: Intertextualities between Hagar, the Ethiopian Virgin Girls in the Book of Esther, and Mother Africa Ericka Dunbar 3. A Kenyan Postcolonial Feminist Rereading of the Fourth Gospel: Towards a Christology for Eco- and Gender Justice Lydia Chemei Part 3: Earth Friendly and Eco-Feminist Hermeneutics 4. "On Earth as It Is in Heaven": Conversations between Musa Dube's Earth-Friendly Hermeneutics and Sallie McFague's Ecological Theology Megan Bedford-Strohm 5. The Cry of the Earth Is the Cry of Women: Ecofeminisms in Critical Dialogue with Laudato Si' Nontando Hadebe Part 4: Mother Africa and Postcolonial Musings on Eco-Justice

SynopsisMother Earth, Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies adds another contribution to the ongoing interrogation of an imminent universal crisis, global warming. Examining the environmental crisis from liberation, postcolonial, and theological lenses in Africa, the continent whose people stand to bear the brunt of ecological catastrophe, the contributors provide fresh perspectives that place this book at the forefront of new research being done across the African continent. The volume serves as a compendium for the intersection of African spirituality, cultural expression, and the earth., Anchored on postcolonial and liberation theology, this book examines the global ecological crisis within gender justice discourse. Utilizing textual analysis and empirical studies, the book chapters foreground how the African continent, particularly African women, bear the burden of the ecological catastrophe.

LC Classification NumberBT695.5.M678 2021