En la Lucha / In the Struggle: Elaborating a Mujerista Theology (10th Anniversary Edition) (English and Spanish Edition)Fortress Press - 252 pages Ten years ago En la Lucha offered the first systematic presentation of mujerista theology -- the liberating religious reflection of Hispanic women -- giving voice to the everyday struggles and insights of Hispanic women and offering a new form of contextual theology. Since that time, Isasi-Diaz's work has been widely praised, studied, and emulated in Hispanic and other contextual theologies, and she is widely acknowledged to be mujerista theology's major spokeswoman. This anniversary edition places the central thrust of mujerista theology in the ongoing context of North American society, brings a heightened sense of the specificity and complexity of Hispanic identity, and reflects further on the global implications of the North American Hispanic context. With a new Introduction, updates to each chapter, and new Spanish-language summaries of the chapters, the new edition is a sterling presentation of the sources, aims, and truths of mujerista theology. |
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Page 61 - Geertz defines religion as a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic (Geertz, 1966:4).
Page 179 - Each man, finally, outside his professional activity, carries on some form of intellectual activity, that is, he is a "philosopher", an artist, a man of taste, he participates in a particular conception of the world, has a conscious line of moral conduct, and therefore contributes to sustain a conception of the world or to modify it, that is, to bring into being new modes of thought.
Page 154 - The body of the faithful as a whole, anointed as they are by the Holy One (cf. Jn. 2:20, 27), cannot err in matters of belief. Thanks to a supernatural sense of the faith which characterizes the People as a whole, it manifests this unerring quality when, "from the bishops down to the last member of the laity," it shows universal agreement in matters of faith and morals.
Page v - York soy extranjera ya en cualquier parte (...) Pero Nueva York no fue la ciudad de mi infancia, no fue aquí que adquirí las primeras certidumbres, no está aquí el rincón de mi primera caída ni el silbido lacerante que marcaba las noches. Por eso siempre permaneceré al margen, una extraña entre...
Page 91 - ... of mujerista theology, we are trying to validate our world, our reality, our values. We are trying to reverse the schizophrenia that attacks our lives by insisting that who we are and what we do is revelatory of the divine. The lived-experience of Hispanic Women constitutes our common and shared reality. The "common sense" of Hispanic Women is not wrong. We can trust it to inform and guide our day-to-day life. Mujerista theology wants to affirm the worldview of Hispanic Women, shaped as it is...
Page 179 - There is no human activity from which every form of intellectual participation can be excluded: homo faber cannot be separated from homo sapiens ^ Each man, finally, outside his professional activity, carries on some form of intellectual activity, that is, he is a "philosopher...
Page 58 - The point of view of the poor, on the other hand, pierced by suffering and attracted by hope, allows them, in their struggles, to conceive another reality. Because the poor suffer the weight of alienation, they can conceive a different project of hope and provide dynamism to a new way of organizing human life for a//.18 The lived-experience of Hispanic women, therefore, brings a new dynamism to theology.