African Women’s Liberating Philosophies, Theologies, and Ethics

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-39132-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 301 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

This volume explores the ethical and philosophical paradigms presented by most of the influential Matriarchs of the Circle of African Women Theologians. It critically evaluates the effectiveness of their ethical and philosophical theories, models, and frameworks in pursuing justice and liberation for women in Africa and globally. The authors address critical questions: How have African women theologians reimagined existing ethical paradigms? What original ethical and philosophical ideas have they generated? How have their ethical frameworks influenced the theologies and interpretations they have developed? What purposes do their ethical and philosophical paradigms serve? How do these renderings intersect with various social categories, including gender, race, class, sexuality, capitalism, and colonialism? What liberating frameworks do they propose?

The volume further explores the dialogue between distinct African contexts and universal experiences and values. It explores how universal themes such as humanity, human dignity, rights, justice, motherhood, and more can coexist with communal African concepts and themes. It contemplates how embracing African approaches engages these themes more globally, bringing together particular African contexts of women and the universal ethical, philosophical, and theological theories, models, and frameworks to advance the cause of justice and liberation for African women and women worldwide into the future.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Okyere-Manu, Beatrice

Lushombo, Léocadie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Feministische Theologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Befreiungstheologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Ethics and Philosophy, African Women’s Perspective.- Part I Ethics, African Philosophy and Liberation.- 2. Beyond Isirika: Problematizing and Theorizing Musimbi Kanyoro’s Communal Ethics.- 3. Environmental Ethics of African Women Theologians.- 4. Ethics and Philosophies of Hannah Kinoti (1942-2001).- 5. Ethical implications of Puleng LenkaBula’s philosophy and its relevance for contemporary African women’s theologies and ethics.- Part II Ethics and Philosophies of Founding Matriarchs.- 6. Katie Canon’s Womanist Ethics.- 7. Ethics and Values of Mercy A. Oduyoye’s Theology of Liberation.- 8. Ethics and Philosophy of Anne Nasimiyu Wasike.- 9. Ethics and Philosophies of Bernadette Mbuy-Beya.- 10. Theologies of Sister Rosemary Nkoyo Edet in a Sociological Context.- 11. A Critical Reflection of Nyambura Njoroge’s Ethics of Liberation.- 12. Ethics of Feminist Liberation in Peggy Mulambya Kabonde.- 13. Ethics of Ubuntu and Gender Justice Among African Women Theologians.- Part III Ethics of Reading for Liberation.- 14. Bosadi Hermeneutics: Mapping Masenya’s Journey of Collisions and Relationships in Biblical Interpretation.- 15. Musa W. Dube’s Musa W. Dube’s Poetics of Freedom.- 16. Ethical Readings of Elna Mouton: Exploring Gender, Households, and Ethos in New Testament writings.

Über Autor(innen)

Beatrice Okyere-Manu is a Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Léocadie Lushombo is Assistant Professor in Theological Ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of the Congo.