La Lucha Continues: Mujerista Theology

by Ada María Isasi-Díaz

Book Overview

Book annotation not available for this title.Title: LA Lucha ContinuesAuthor: Isasi-Diaz, Ada MariaPublisher: Orbis BooksPublication Date: 2004/10/31Number of Pages: 270Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570755574
• ISBN13: 9781570755576
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Liberative Theology in a Hispanas/Latinas key.

La Lucha Continues: Mujerista Theology by Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (Orbis Books) Mujerista theology begins with personal experience and moves toward a theology that advances the dignity and liberation of all Hispanic/Latina women. This collection of essays combining personal narratives and theological discourse brings together important insights into the concerns of Hispanic women, the ways in which they can shape theology, and the roles they can take on in the church. Ada María Isasi-Diaz, a professor of theology and ethics at The Theological School, Drew University, is author of many articles and books, including Mujerista Theology and En La Lucha: A Hispanic Women's Liberation Theology. Excerpt:This book, La Lucha Continues: Mujerista Theology, the second volume of my essays, is in an attempt to present the theo-ethical elaborations that have occupied me for the last nine years. As was true in the first volume, Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century, my goal is to make women and men theologians, the churches, and society at large take note of the religious understandings and practices that are intrinsic elements of the struggles for survival and liberation of Hispanas/Latinas in the USA. An ongoing difficult task for me is to find ways to straddle the academy and the world of grassroot Hispanas/Latinas. My work in the academy-teaching, research, writing-and my work with grassroot Hispanas/Latinas-participating in liturgies and meetings, asking questions about God and meeting everyday obstacles-are very much of one piece. For me it is not a matter of applying what I learn in one of these worlds to the other. I engage in both of them consciously from a liberation perspective. My goal has always been and continues to be to help bring about justice for Hispanas/Latinas, for our communities, and for all oppressed people. Mujerista theology works to contribute, in the name of Hispana/Latina communities and for the sake of all the poor and the oppressed, to the ethical norms that guide society and its future. Our hope has always been to help build open and flexible relationships among all persons and between persons and institutions. These new dialogic, non-competitive relationships provide a firm foundation to create the kind of society we want, one that promotes the welfare of all, with a particular focus on those who are most vulnerable. Only on the basis of such a society can we hope for a truly democratic political regime with institutions and practices that enable the full participation of all its members, a society that leaves no one behind and that carefully guards against a few of its citizens flourishing at the expense of whole other sectors. How does mujerista theology contribute to such a society, to this kind of proyecto histórico (historical project), to this utopian vision? First of all, in mujerista theology utopia does not function to define social structures but rather to indicate theo-ethical understandings, value