Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective [Paperback]

Letty M. Russell (Editor), Kwok Pui-lan (Editor), Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz (Editor), Katie Geneva Cannon (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1988

This book represents a major contribution toward the development of a global feminist theology. The personal histories and experiences of women of African, Asian, Anglo-American, and Latin-American heritage recounted here make it possible to analyze the social and historical contexts of their Christian faith. Their insights into the lives of those who have been oppressed or excluded, in the Third World or in the United States, clear the way for understanding the partnership of men and women everywhere.

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About the Author

Letty M. Russell was one of the world's foremost feminist theologians and a longtime member of the faculty of Yale Divinity School. She died on July 12, 2007, at age 77. She was one of the first women ordained in the United Presbyterian Church and served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the Ascension in East Harlem for ten years. She joined the faculty of Yale Divinity School in 1974 and retired in 2001. She wrote and edited numerous books, including Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church, Dictionary of Feminist Theologies (with J. Shannon Clarkson),and Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective (with Kwok Pui Lan, Ada Maria Isasi Dias, and Katie Cannon).

Kwok Pui-lan is William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz is Professor of Ethics and Theology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where she is also founder and co-Director of the Hispanic Institute of Theology.

Katie Geneva Cannon is the Annie Scales Rogers Professor for Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia. She was the first African-American woman to be ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press; 1st edition (January 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 066425019X
• ISBN-13: 978-0664250195
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #864,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)