Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation (Biblical Reflections on Ministry) - Softcover

Gebara, Ivone; Molineaux, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800631838 ISBN 13: 9780800631833

Publisher: Fortress Press, 1999

Synopsis

Gebara's succinct yet moving statement of her principles of ecofeminism shows how intertwined are the tarnished environment around her and the poverty that afflicts her neighbors. From her experiences with the Brazilian poor women's movement she develops a gritty urban ecofeminism and indeed articulates a whole worldview. She shows how the connections between Western thought, partriachal Christianity, and environmental destruction necessitate personal conversion to "an new relationship with the earth and with the entire cosmos."

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About the Author

Ivone Gebara, a Brazilian Sister of Notre Dame, is one of Latin America's leading women theologians. She holds doctorates in philosophy and religious studies and has taught for many years at the Theology Institute of Recife (ITER). Among her half-dozen books are Trinity: A Word on Things New and Old (1995) and Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation (Fortress Press, 1999).

From the Back Cover

"Ivone Gebara is unquestionably the most original theologian working from an ecofeminist liberation perspective from Latin America today. Her theology does not begin with absolutes from on high, but with daily life among poor women of Latin America from whose context the interconnected dominations of race, class, gender and the earth are not a theory but a concrete reality. It is from this context that Gebara reflects on the themes of theology, on epistemology, the nature of the human person, God, Jesus and redemptive hope" ---Rosemary Radford Ruether

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I live in a poor neighborhood in order to feel more directly the pains of the impoverished. This allows me to do theology in another way---trying to feel the meaning of being exploited in all ways. This closeness is also a constant invitation to struggle for a different world with at least minimal justice---the right to eat, to work, to live and love with dignity. ---Ivone Gebara

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800631838
• ISBN 13: 9780800631833
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240