En LA Lucha in the Struggle

by Isasi-Diaz, Ada Maria

• ISBN13: 9780800626105
• ISBN10: 0800626109
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologo
Introduction	p. 1
Naming Ourselves	p. 2
Mujerista Theology and Traditional Classifications in Theology	p. 4
The Written English of a Cuban	p. 5
Hispanic Ethnicity and Social Locality in Mujerista Theology	p. 11
Identifying Hispanic Women	p. 12
Mestizaje - Embracing and Celebrating Diversity	p. 14
Survival - Hispanic Women's Daily Bread	p. 16
Socio-Economic Reality of Hispanic Women	p. 22
Popular Religiosity, Spanish, and Proyecto Historico: Elements of Latinas' Ethnicity	p. 34
Latinas' Preferred Future: Our Proyecto Historico	p. 34
Popular Religiosity as an Element of Mujerista Theology	p. 45
Spanish: "The Language of the Angels"	p. 52
Latino Ethnicity: Social Construct	p. 54
Mujerista Theology's Methods: Understandings and Procedure	p. 62
Sociological Methods and Theories	p. 63
Ethnomethodology	p. 65
Ethnography	p. 65
Meta-Ethnography	p. 68
Mujerista Professional Theologians as Insiders	p. 70
Why We Use Ethnography and Meta-Ethnography in Mujerista Theology	p. 73
The Ethnographic Interview	p. 75
In Their Own Words: Latinas as Moral Agents	p. 86
Who Are These Latinas?	p. 88
Initial Explorations of Latinas' Decision-Making Process	p. 94
Latinas' Understanding of Themselves	p. 125
Generative Themes Central to Latinas	p. 132
Conscience, Conscientization, and Moral Agency in Mujerista Theology	p. 141
Catholic Bishops' Understanding of Conscience Today	p. 143
Curtailment of Freedom of Conscience	p. 145
Historical Developments in the Catholic Tradition	p. 147
Conscience in Historical Protestant, Fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Churches	p. 152
From Conscience to Moral Consciousness and Conscientization	p. 154
Praxis and Lived-Experience in Mujerista Theology	p. 166
Praxis in Mujerista Theology	p. 167
The Lived-Experience of Latinas	p. 173
Grassroot Latinas as Mujerista Theologians	p. 176
Mestizaje: Symbol of Hispanic Women's Moral Truth-Praxis	p. 186
Understanding and Valuing Differences	p. 187
Differences among Hispanic Women	p. 190
Hispanic Women Opting for Hispanic Women	p. 193
Mestizaje and Hispanic Women's Moral Truth-Praxis	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 223
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