Marian Reflections on War and Peace

Trauma, Mourning, and Justice in Ukraine and Beyond
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-65655-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

Reihe: Transforming Political Theologies

This book presents an original Marian approach towards war and peace, dedicated to the suffering of children, women, and men in Mariupol and elsewhere in Ukraine and in the world. Offering new theological perspectives on the contemporary impact of war, the contributions take inspiration from the figure and symbol of Mary – as protector of children and guardian of peace, intermediary of the incarnation, as well as model for ecumenical, interreligious, and intercultural engagements. The chapters explore the role of Mary as a symbol for feminist and activist reflections, for the communication of suffering as the mater dolorosa, for power when appropriated for political ends, and for healing and reconciliation in peace-building efforts. The book provides readers with valuable theological reflections on conflict, global theological ethics, ecofeminist and peace-building thinking in theology, and contemporary political theology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Skof, Lenart

Škof, Lenart

Holmes, Emily A

Smytsnyuk, Pavlo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Peter Howard; Foreword by Yuri Shchurko; Foreword by Aleš Maver; Editorial Introduction by Lenart Škof, Emily Holmes and Pavlo Smytsnyuk; 1/ WAR IN UKRAINE AND MARY; 1. Women between Sacrifice and Defence: Reading the Bible amid the War in Ukraine - Halyna Teslyuk; 2. The Queen of Peace Cradling a Rocket Launcher: Sacralization of War and Peace, Collective Responsibility and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Pavlo Smytsnyuk; 3. Wartime Marian Iconography: Context and Social Ethos - Lidiya Lozova; 2/ MARIAN PEACE AND JUSTICE BETWEEN TRAUMA AND MOURNING; 4. Motherly Choices in Times of War, Through the Lens of Marian Trauma Theology - Heleen Zorgdrager; 5. Marian Peace for the Children who Suffer in War - Lenart Škof; 6. ‘She who Ripens the Grain’: Food Justice, Solidarity, and the Incarnation - Emily A. Holmes; 7. Stabat Mater Dolorosa: Marian Mourning as Peace-Oriented Response to the Sorrows of Our World - Yves De Maeseneer; 3/ INTERRELIGIOUS MARIAN REFLECTIONS: FROM MILITARISM TO PEACEBUILDING; 8. Mary, Our Lady of Liberation: Mary in The Context of Occupied Palestine - Marie-Claire Klassen; 9. Mary, A Mother and Sister of All Wounded: A Transnational Feminist Reading of Mariology in Response to Militarism - Min-Ah Cho; 10. Mary as an Interreligious and Cross-Cultural Symbol of Peace in South Asia - Joe Evans; 11. Mary, Queen of Peace in Twentieth-Century Apparitions - Chris Maunder.

Über Autor(innen)

Lenart Škof is Head of the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Science and Research Centre in Koper, Slovenia, and Dean of Faculty ISH at the Alma Mater Europaea University (Ljubljana, Slovenia). He is a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, Salzburg) and the President of Slovenian Society for Comparative Religion.

Emily A. Holmes is Professor of Religious Studies at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, USA. Her current work focuses on community-based spiritual and ethical practices related to growing, sharing, and eating food using an incarnational theological framework.

Pavlo Smytsnyuk is Petrach Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He specializes in political theology and social ethics in a comparative perspective.