Overview
- Maps the ethical paradigms proposed by African women in theologies of liberation over the last several decades
- Argues that women’s flourishing is a prerequisite for the flourishing of the African continent
- Brings African theologians together to discuss topics and issues African women face
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Founding Matriarchs’ Philosophies and Ethics of Liberation
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Founding Matriarchs on African Communal Philosophy and Environmental Ethics
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Ethics of Reading for Liberation and Biblical Interpretation
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About this book
This volume explores the ethical and philosophical paradigms presented by most of the influential Matriarchs of the Circle of African Women Theologians. It critically evaluates the effectiveness of their ethical and philosophical theories, models, and frameworks in pursuing justice and liberation for women in Africa and globally. The authors address critical questions: How have African women theologians reimagined existing ethical paradigms? What original ethical and philosophical ideas have they generated? How have their ethical frameworks influenced the theologies and interpretations they have developed? What purposes do their ethical and philosophical paradigms serve? How do these renderings intersect with various social categories, including gender, race, class, sexuality, capitalism, and colonialism? What liberating frameworks do they propose?
The volume further explores the dialogue between distinct African contexts and universal experiences and values. It explores how universal themes such as humanity, human dignity, rights, justice, motherhood, and more can coexist with communal African concepts and themes. It contemplates how embracing African approaches engages these themes more globally, bringing together particular African contexts of women and the universal ethical, philosophical, and theological theories, models, and frameworks to advance the cause of justice and liberation for African women and women worldwide into the future.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Beatrice Okyere-Manu is a Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Léocadie Lushombo is Assistant Professor in Theological Ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of the Congo.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: African Women’s Liberating Philosophies, Theologies, and Ethics
Editors: Beatrice Okyere-Manu, Léocadie Lushombo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39133-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39132-3Published: 03 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39135-4Due: 07 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39133-0Published: 02 May 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 301
Topics: Feminist Theology, Liberation Theology, Ethics, Comparative Religion, Philosophy, general