Longing for Running Water
Ecofeminism and Liberation
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Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation
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."
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800631833
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 240
- Publication Date August 31, 1999
Endorsements
"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 for whom 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
— Rosemary Radford Ruether
Excerpts
"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 live with dignity."
Table of Contents
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Prologue
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Knowing Our Knowing: The Issue of Epistemology
Epistemology in Search of Meaning - The Human Person From an Ecofeminist Perspective Beginning to Talk about the Human Person
- God: An Ecofeminist Approach to the Greatest of Mysteries Relatedness as a Language and an Experience of the Divine
- Ecofeminism and the Trinity Feelings and Associations Related to the Trinity
- Jesus From an Ecofeminist Perspective The Road I Have Walked with Jesus
- That All May have Life: The Way to A new Understanding of Religion The Issue That Concerns Us
Introduction
Knowledge and Ethics
The Hierarchical, Anthropocentric, and Androcentric Bias of Patriarchaal Epistemology
Patriarchal Epistemology in Theology
Ecofeminist Epistemology
Questioning the Autonomy of the Human Person
The Patriarchal Perspective: Its Value and Limitations
"Person" in an Ecofeminist Perspective: A Tentative Construction
Issues Raised about Ecofeminist Discource on God
God: Models and Mystery
God: My Hope
What Human Experience Is Described by Trinitarian Language?
Religious Language and Its Crystallization in Institutions
Reconstructing Trinitarian Meanings and Celebrating Life
Ecofeminist Challenges to Our Relationship with Jesus of Nazareth
The Destruction of Green Things, of Diversity, and of Our Symbols
Religion and Community Life
A Religion That Isn't in Crisis
Religious Biodiversity: A Path in Need of Rediscovery
Epilogue: As the Deer Longs for Running Waters
Notes
Bibliography
Index