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Book SynopsisMother Earth, Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies adds another contribution to the ongoing interrogation of an imminent universal crisis, global warming. Examining the environmental crisis from liberation, postcolonial, and theological lenses in Africa, the continent whose people stand to bear the brunt of ecological catastrophe, the contributors provide fresh perspectives that place this book at the forefront of new research being done across the African continent. The volume serves as a compendium for the intersection of African spirituality, cultural expression, and the earth.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mother Earth and Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies
Sophia Chirongoma and Esther Mombo
Part 1: Introductory Mapping
1.30 Years of African Women’s Liberation Theology
Esther Mombo and Sophia Chirongoma
Part 2: Envisioning Mother Africa’s Liberation through Textual Exploration
2.Sisters of the Soil … Surviving Collective Cultural Traumatization: Intertextualities between Hagar, the Ethiopian Virgin Girls in the Book of Esther, and Mother Africa
Ericka Dunbar
3.A Kenyan Postcolonial Feminist Rereading of the Fourth Gospel: Towards a Christology for Eco- and Gender Justice
Lydia Chemei
Part 3: Earth Friendly and Eco-Feminist Hermeneutics
4.“On Earth as It Is in Heaven”: Conversations between Musa Dube’s Earth-Friendly Hermeneutics and Sallie McFague’s Ecological Theology
Megan Bedford-Strohm
5.The Cry of the Earth Is the Cry of Women: Ecofeminisms in Critical Dialogue with Laudato Si’
Nontando Hadebe
Part 4: Mother Africa and Postcolonial Musings on Eco-Justice
6.African Women as Environmental Freedom Fighters
Yoknyam Dabale
7.The Discourse of Drought: Ongoing Gendered Inequality of Water Access in Cape Town, and the Implications for Public Theology
Alease Brown
8.“Redeeming the Land….” Pentecostalism, Neo-colonialism, and Re-imagining Africa
Kudzai Biri
9.Voices from the Margins: Religio-Cultural Perspectives of Women, Children, and the Elderly amidst the Tokwe-Mukosi Dam Displacements in Zimbabwe
Sophia Chirongoma
