A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology

A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology
Author: María Pilar Aquino
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0292783973

Speaking for the growing community of Latina feminist theologians, the editors of this volume write, "With the emergence and growth of the feminist theologies of liberation, we no longer wait for others to define or validate our experience of life and faith.... We want to express in our own words our plural ways of experiencing God and our plural ways of living our faith. And these ways have a liberative tone." With twelve original essays by emerging and established Latina feminist theologians, this first-of-its-kind volume adds the perspectives, realities, struggles, and spiritualities of U.S. Latinas to the larger feminist theological discourse. The editors have gathered writings from both Roman Catholics and Protestants and from various Latino/a communities. The writers address a wide array of theological concerns: popular religion, denominational presence and attraction, methodology, lived experience, analysis of nationhood, and interpretations of life lived on a border that is not only geographic but also racial, gendered, linguistic, and religious.

Limits of Liberation

Limits of Liberation
Author: Elina Vuola
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2002-09-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781841273099

How far are the real lives of millions of poor women really catered for in liberation and feminist theologies? Vuola argues here that traditional liberation theology's notion of praxis (as in L .Boff and E. Dussel) is limited by its essentialist notion of 'poor' and its neglect of the issue of poor women's reproductive rights. Classical feminist theologies, on the other hand, are fraught with their own essentialist notions ('women's experience'). Both discourses are inadequate to deal with poor women's suffering: widespread maternal mortality, high rates of botched, illegal abortions, and an overall lack of reproductive rights. As a response to this lack, Vuola nurtures a form of Latin American feminist liberation theology that addresses directly the suffering and death of these millions of women.

Daughters of Wisdom

Daughters of Wisdom
Author: Ahida Calderón Pilarski
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2023-06-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725290324

This book offers a window into current realities regarding women's leadership in the global church and explores strategic recommendations to nurture this leadership in the twenty-first century. The essays in this volume were initially presented at an international conference organized by the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology (CWCIT) at DePaul University in 2018. The reference to "Daughters of Wisdom" in the title for this volume was aimed at capturing the diversity of ways which women have found to exercise their leadership in responding to the challenging and/or hopeful realities of their contextual locations and their faith and social communities. The authors address particularly different aspects of women's leadership in the Catholic Church, with a special emphasis on the global South. The contributors are lay and religious people from India, Nigeria, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, the US, Singapore, and the Philippines. The topics explored in this volume include women's use of Scripture, the ecclesiological basis for women in church leadership, and the leadership roles that women have been exercising already in grassroots church communities, in Marian devotion, in faith-based social movements, and in theological education.

Cuban Feminist Theology

Cuban Feminist Theology
Author: Ofelia Ortega
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2022-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1978713002

Cuban Feminist Theology: Visions and Praxis offers rare and much needed insights in essays that span the entirety of Cuban theologian Ofelia Miriam Ortega’s career. The chapters address the social, economic, and political realities in Cuba, the Caribbean and Latin America as the contexts of Cuban feminist theology; the challenges of ecumenism; the urgency of feminist and liberationist theologies amongst patriarchal and oppressive systems throughout the world; and the importance of theological education.

Hanging On and Rising Up

Hanging On and Rising Up
Author: Patricia Cuyatti Chavez
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2019-06-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532651589

Hanging On and Rising Up invites readers to enter into key aspects of Christology, making use of women’s perspectives from the Andean Peruvian contexts by using novels by Clorinda Matto de Turner and José María Arguedas. Studying the social, racial, and cultural experiences in challenging contexts, the book confirms the nearness of God in Jesus Christ, who makes hope possible as a sign of resurrection and encourages persons to celebrate it daily.

So Great a Salvation

So Great a Salvation
Author: Gene L. Green
Publisher: Langham Global Library
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2017-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1783683805

In So Great a Salvation nine scholars from the global church reflect on soteriology in the Majority World. The doctrine of salvation is not a mere theological construct but, rather, a matter of eternal life and death that should not be treated lightly, as is often the case. Taking African, Asian, Latin American, and First Nations cultural contexts into account, this book allows readers to see God’s creative deliverance in a fresh light.

Teología feminista

Teología feminista
Author: Elina Vuola
Publisher: IEPALA Editorial
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2000
Genre: Feminist theology
ISBN: 9788489743144

Feminist Catholic Theological Ethics: Conversations in the World Church

Feminist Catholic Theological Ethics: Conversations in the World Church
Author: Hogan, Linda
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608334503

The growing body of feminist literature in the late 20th and early 21st centuries demonstrates the phenomenal advances of feminist thought and movements in the context of church and society. Characteristic of this growth is the re-location of issues from the global North, and broadening of focus to include voices from the global South.
In the context of globalization new vistas and voices are emerging that trace new directions and seek to rephrase the central questions in the feminist discourse. This volume aims to highlight the changing face and color of feminist theological discourse, recognize innovative research in the field, and facilitate a global conversation among feminists engaged in theological ethics in the world church.