En LA Lucha/in the Struggle

by Isasi-Diaz, Ada Maria

• ISBN13: 9780800635992
• ISBN10: 080063599X
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

Ten years ago En la Lucha offered the first systematic presentation of mujerista theology -- the liberating religious reflection of Hispanic women -- giving voice to the everyday struggles and insights of Hispanic women and offering a new form of contextual theology.

Since that time, Isasi-Diaz's work has been widely praised, studied, and emulated in Hispanic and other contextual theologies, and she is widely acknowledged to be mujerista theology's major spokeswoman. This anniversary edition places the central thrust of mujerista theology in the ongoing context of North American society, brings a heightened sense of the specificity and complexity of Hispanic identity, and reflects further on the global implications of the North American Hispanic context. With a new Introduction, updates to each chapter, and new Spanish-language summaries of the chapters, the new edition is a sterling presentation of the sources, aims, and truths of mujerista theology.

Author Biography

Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz is Professor of Ethics and Theology at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	x
PREFACIO	xiii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xvii
AGRADECIMIENTOS	xxi
INTRODUCTION TO THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION:
Mujerista Theology at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century	1	(10)
INTRODUCCIÓN A LA EDICIÓN DÉCIMO ANIVERSARIO:
Teologia Mujerista al Comienzo del Siglo 21	11	(10)
INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION	21	(5)
Naming Ourselves	22	(2)
Mujerista Theology and Traditional Classifications in Theology	24	(1)
The Written English of a Cuban	25	(1)
INTRODUCCIÓN A LA PRIMERA EDICIÓN	26	(4)
Nuestro nombre	27	(1)
La teologia mujerista y las divisiones de la teologia tradicional	28	(1)
El ingles de esta cubana	29	(1)
CHAPTER 1 Hispanic Ethnicity and Social Locality in MujeristaTheology	30	(22)
Identifying Hispanic Women	31	(2)
Mestizaje Embracing and Celebrating Diversity	33	(1)
Survival Hispanic Women's Daily Bread	34	(5)
Socioeconomic Reality of Hispanic Women	39	(6)
Sintesis del Capitulo 1	45	(7)
CHAPTER 2 Popular Religiosity, Spanish, and Proyecto Histórico: Elements of Latinas' Ethnicity	52	(28)
Latinas' Preferred Future: Our Proyecto Historico	52	(9)
Popular Religiosity as an Element of Mujerista Theology	61	(5)
Spanish: "The Language of the Angels"	66	(2)
Latino Ethnicity: Social Construct	68	(2)
Sintesis del Capitulo 2	70	(10)
CHAPTER 3 Mujerista Theology's Methods: Understandings and Procedure	80	(24)
Sociological Methods and Theories	81	(2)
Ethn omethodology	83	(1)
Ethnography	83	(2)
Meta-Ethnography	85	(2)
Mujerista Professional Theologians as Insiders	87	(2)
Why We Use Ethnography and Meta-Ethnography in Mujerista Theology	89	(3)
The Ethnographic Interview	92	(4)
Sintesis del Capitulo 3	96	(8)
CHAPTER 4 In Their Own Words: Latinas as Moral Agents	104	(46)
Who Are These Latinas?	106	(5)
Initial Explorations of Latinas' Decision-Making Process	111	(32)
Sintesis del Capítulo 4	143	(7)
CHAPTER 5 Conscience, Conscientization, and Moral Agency in Mujerista Theology	150	(26)
Catholic Bishops' Understanding of Conscience Today	152	(1)
Curtailment of Freedom of Conscience	153	(1)
Historical Developments in the Catholic Tradition	154	(5)
Conscience in Historical Protestant, Fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Churches	159	(1)
From Conscience to Moral Consciousness and Conscientization	160	(7)
Sintesis del Capitulo 5	167	(9)
CHAPTER 6 Praxis and Lived-Experience in Mujerista Theology	176	(19)
Praxis in Mujerista Theology	177	(5)
The Lived-Experience of Latinas	182	(2)
Grassroot Latinas as Mujerista Theologians	184	(4)
Sintesis del Capitulo 6	188	(7)
CHAPTER 7 Mestizaje: Symbol of HispanicWomen's Moral Truth-Praxis	195	(18)
Understanding and Valuing Differences	196	(3)
Differences among Hispanic Women	199	(2)
Hispanic Women Opting for Hispanic Women	201	(2)
Mestizaje and Hispanic Women's Moral Truth-Praxis	203	(2)
Síntesis del Capitulo 7	205	(8)
NOTES	213	(19)
BIBLIOGRAPHY	232	(15)
INDEX	247