Longing for Running Water : Ecofeminism and Liberation,9780800631833

Longing for Running Water : Ecofeminism and Liberation

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ISBN13: 9780800631833
ISBN10: 0800631838
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-11-01
Publisher(s): Augsburg Fortress Pub
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Summary

Visioning the cosmos through a liberation-oriented lens.

Author Biography

Ivone Gebara is one of Latin America's leading theologians. A Brazilian Sister of Our Lady (Canoneses of St. Augustine), she holds doctorates in philosophy and religious studies and taught for many years at the Theology Institute of Recife (ITER).

Table of Contents

Prologue v
Introduction 1(18)
Knowing Our Knowing: The Issue of Epistemology
19(48)
Epistemology in Search of Meaning
19(4)
Knowledge and Ethics
23(2)
The Hierarchical, Anthropocentric, and Androcentric Bias of Patriarchal Epistemology
25(5)
Patriarchal Epistemology in Theology
30(18)
Ecofeminist Epistemology
48(19)
The Human Person from an Ecofeminist Perspective
67(34)
Beginning to Talk about the Human Person
69(2)
Questioning the Autonomy of the Human Person
71(5)
The Patriarchal Perspective: Its Value and Limitations
76(6)
``Person'' in an Ecofeminist Perspective: A Tentative Construction
82(19)
God: An Ecofeminist Approach to the Greatest of Mysteries
101(36)
Relatedness as a Language and an Experience of the Divine
102(8)
Issues Raised about Ecofeminist Discourse on God
110(22)
God: Models and Mystery
132(1)
God: My Hope
133(4)
Ecofeminism and the Trinity
137(36)
Feelings and Associations Related to the Trinity
137(2)
What Human Experience Is Described by Trinitarian Language?
139(12)
Religious Language and Its Crystallization in Institutions
151(4)
Reconstructing Trinitarian Meanings and Celebrating Life
155(18)
Jesus from an Ecofeminist Perspective
173(20)
The Road I Have Walked with Jesus
175(7)
Ecofeminist Challenges to Our Relationship with Jesus of Nazareth
182(11)
That all may have Life: The way to a new Understanding of Religion
193(20)
The Issue That Concerns Us
193(4)
The Destruction of Green Things, of Diversity, and of Our Symbols
197(2)
Religion and Community Life
199(3)
A Religion That Isn't in Crisis
202(3)
Religious Biodiversity: A Path in Need of Rediscovery
205(8)
Epilogue: As the Deer Longs for Running Waters 213(4)
Notes 217(6)
Bibliography 223(4)
Index 227

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