Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths (Ecology and Justice Series) (Ecology & Justice)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1626982015 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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She holds a PhD. Harris is professor of religion and ethics at Texas Christian University, author of Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics, and co-editor of Faith, Feminism and Scholarship (both Palgrave Macmillan). Melanie L. from Union Theological Seminary, New York.
Scholarship on African American history and culture has often neglected the tradition of African American women who engage in theological and religious reflection on their ethical and moral responsibility to care for the earth. Incorporating elements of her family history to set the stage for her argument, Harris intersperses her academic reflections with her own personal stories and anecdotes.This unique text stands at the intersection of several academic disciplines: womanist theology, eco-theology, spirituality, and theological aesthetics.. Melanie Harris argues that African American women make distinctive contributions to the environmental justice movement in the ways that they theologize, theorize, practice spiritual activism, and come into religious understandings about our relationship with the earth
This book is a critically important work of justice deeply rooted in the experiences and history of Black women's long struggle against eco-racism and all forms of oppression." --Diana L. It will be invaluable for courses in environmental and religious ethics, spirituality, Black liberation theologies, womanist ethics and theologies, and African American religious thought." --Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, author, Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation"Harris rightly a