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."
Ivone Gebara, a Brazilian Sister of Notre Dame, is one of Latin America's leading women theologians. She holds doctorates in philosophy and religious studies and has taught for many years at the Theology Institute of Recife (ITER). Among her half-dozen books are Trinity: A Word on Things New and Old (1995) and Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation (Fortress Press, 1999).
Prologue Introduction > Knowing Our Knowing: The Issue of Epistemology Epistemology in Search of Meaning Knowledge and Ethics The Hierarchical, Anthropocentric, and Androcentric Bias of Patriarchaal Epistemology Patriarchal Epistemology in Theology Ecofeminist Epistemology The Human Person From an Ecofeminist Perspective Beginning to Talk about the Human Person Questioning the Autonomy of the Human Person The Patriarchal Perspective: Its Value and Limitations "Person" in an Ecofeminist Perspective: A Tentative Construction God: An Ecofeminist Approach to the Greatest of Mysteries Relatedness as a Language and an Experience of the Divine Issues Raised about Ecofeminist Discource on God God: Models and Mystery God: My Hope Ecofeminism and the Trinity Feelings and Associations Related to the Trinity What Human Experience Is Described by Trinitarian Language? Religious Language and Its Crystallization in Institutions Reconstructing Trinitarian Meanings and Celebrating Life Jesus From an Ecofeminist Perspective The Road I Have Walked with Jesus Ecofeminist Challenges to Our Relationship with Jesus of Nazareth That All May have Life: The Way to A new Understanding of Religion The Issue That Concerns Us 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
