| | |  | LAN | Home » » » » Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective | | | | | | | Description: | | This book represents a major contribution toward the development of a global feminist theology. The personal histories and experiences of women of African, Asian, Anglo-American, and Latin-American heritage recounted here make it possible to analyze the social and historical contexts of their Christian faith. Their insights into the lives of those who have been oppressed or excluded, in the Third World or in the United States, clear the way for understanding the partnership of men and women everywhere. | | | Features: | |
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| 184 pages | | Publisher:
| Westminster John Knox Press | | Publication Date:
| January 01, 1988 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 066425019X | | Product Length:
| 8.06 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.06 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.49 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.47 pounds | | Package Length:
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FEMINIST THEOLOGY THAT GOES BEYOND THE "ANGLO" VIEWMay 16, 2012
By Steven H. Propp
Editor Letty Mandeville Russell (1929-2007) was a feminist theologian who taught at Yale Divinity Schools, who also wrote/edited books such as Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church, Dictionary of Feminist Theologies, Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective--A Theology, etc.
This 1988 book contains essays by theologians such as Chung Hyun Kyung (Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology), Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century), Kate Geneva Cannon (Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community), and others. Russell noted in the Introduction that the book originated from a conference in April 1987 of some women faculty and students at Princeton Theological Seminary, and is really "the continuation of an ongoing dialogue and friendship among the participants."
Isasi-Diaz notes in her essay that "the fact that the word 'women' refers only to middle- and upper-strata white women shows who decides what is normative. All the rest of us, in order not to be totally invisible, have to add adjectives to the word: poor women, Black women, Hispanic women..." (Pg. 97)
Russell states in her essay that the committment to move out of our gardens to the welcome table is a commitment to "break down the barriers that separate us and to risk the transformation it will take for the communities of partnership to survive in this oppressive world." (Pg. 152-153)
These essays are a welcome addition to the developing literature about third world feminist theology.
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