A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology

by Aquino, Maria Pilar; Machado, Daisy L.; Rodriquez, Jeannette; Rodriguez, Jeanette

• ISBN13: 9780292705128
• ISBN10: 0292705123
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

"To my knowledge, this anthology is the first attempt to give a comprehensive account of the emerging field of Latina feminist theology, and the various contributions illustrate how variegated this field promises to be." --Elisabeth Schuuml;ssler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Professor of Scripture and Interpretation, Harvard Divinity School Speaking for the growing community of Latina feminist theologians, the editors of this volume write, "With the emergence and growth of the feminist theologies of liberation, we no longer wait for others to define or validate our experience of life and faith.... We want to express in our own words our plural ways of experiencing God and our plural ways of living our faith. And these ways have a liberative tone." With twelve original essays by emerging and established Latina feminist theologians, this first-of-its-kind volume adds the perspectives, realities, struggles, and spiritualities of U.S. Latinas to the larger feminist theological discourse. The editors have gathered writings from both Roman Catholics and Protestants and from various Latino/a communities. The writers address a wide array of theological concerns: popular religion, denominational presence and attraction, methodology, lived experience, analysis of nationhood, and interpretations of life lived on a border that is not only geographic but also racial, gendered, linguistic, and religious.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Olga Villa Parra
Introduction	xiii
PART I SOURCES, THOUGHT, AND PRAXIS OF LATINA FEMINIST INSIGHT	1	(130)
Seeing Beauty within Torment: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the Baroque in New Spain	3	(20)
Michelle A. Gonzalez
Prophesy Freedom: Puerto Rican Women's Literature as a Source for Latina Feminist Theology	23	(30)
Teresa Delgado
Ana Castillo as Santera: Reconstructing Popular Religious Praxis	53	(27)
Gail Perez
Reading from Ourselves: Identity and Hermeneutics among Mexican-American Feminists	80	(18)
Leticia A. Guardiola-Saenz
Perception Matters: Pentecostal Latinas in Allentown, Pennsylvania	98	(16)
Anna Adams
Latina Activists: Toward an Inclusive Spirituality of Be in the World	114	(17)
Jeanette Rodriguez
Part II U.S. Latina Feminist Theological Insight	131	(136)
Latina Feminist Theology: Central Features	133	(28)
Maria Pilar Aquino
The Unnamed Woman: Justice, Feminists, and the Undocumented Woman	161	(16)
Daisy L. Machado
Justice Crosses the Border: The Preferential Option for the Poor in the United States	177	(27)
Carmen Marie Nanko
Ignored Virgin or Unaware Women: A Mexican-American Protestant Reflection on the Virgin of Guadalupe	204	(13)
Nora O. Lozano-Diaz
Pathways to a Mestiza Feminist Theology	217	(24)
Gloria Ines Loya
Notes Toward a ChicanaFeminist Epistemology (and Why It Is Important for Latina Feminist Theologies)	241	(26)
Nancy Pineda-Madrid
Selected Bibliography	267	(16)
Contributors	283	(4)
Index	287