Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juarez

by Pineda-madrid, Nancy

• ISBN13: 9780800698478
• ISBN10: 0800698479
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-20
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

Nancy Pineda-Madrid re-conceives traditional Christian notions of salvation by closing attending to the experience of the embattled women of Ciudad Ju#xE1;rez in Mexico, where hundreds have been slain and where survivors have found healing and salvation in solidarity and community practices that resist rather than acquiesce in the violence.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
SufferingùA Social Reality	p. 9
Feminicide in Ciudad Juarez	p. 11
A Social-Suffering Hermeneutic	p. 19
"Reading" the Feminicide	p. 26
Conclusion	p. 37
Suffering, Social Imaginaries, and the Making of Evil	p. 39
Social Imaginaries and the Making of Evil	p. 40
Cultural-Symbolic Female Representations of Suffering	p. 47
The Drive for Release, the Quest for Salvation	p. 58
Conclusion	p. 68
Anselm and Salvation	p. 69
Anselm's Context and the Argument of Cur Deus Homo	p. 71
The Historic Legacy of Cur Deus Homo	p. 82
Cur Deus Homo and the Ciudad Juarez Feminicide	p. 86
Conclusion	p. 95
Responding to Social SufferingùPractices of Resistance	p. 97
Tilling the Soil: Practices of Resistance in the Midst of Suffering	p. 99
Popular Religious Practices and Practices of Resistance	p. 105
Claiming Space, Processing Pain, and Social Imagination	p. 111
Conclusion	p. 121
On the Possibility of Salvation	p. 123
On Matters of Suffering and Response	p. 124
On the Primacy of Community	p. 132
Furthering the Realization of Salvation	p. 141
Conclusion	p. 152
Notes	p. 153
For Further Reading	p. 175
Index	p. 182
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