Mother Earth, Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies

Mother Earth, Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies is a deep and intense cry from the womb of Africa.
Chronicling the faithful and persistent pilgrimage of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians to the Promised Land of true liberation and freedom in every sphere of life and living on the planet, this landmark collection of essays is informed and visionary. It is churned in the crucible of an incisive socio-political and prophetic imagination.
Bravely bearing witness to a pernicious history of diminishment and erosion of true personhood in Africa, through the blight of colonial oppression and discrimination, poverty, wars, degradation of our common environment, and the absence of basic amenities for dignified, everyday living, this book is a CRY OF THE EARTH for urgent change and transformation. Grounded and rooted in a robust contextual theology, it is a compelling call for the restoration and healing of humanity in the image of God.

-- Betty Govinden, founding member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians
Mother Earth is ailing and we who live on and with her are causing her great distress. The ecofeminist essays in this book written by members of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians clearly describe her human-induced pain. The authors use feminist liberation hermeneutics in a variety of ways as they interrogate cultural issues in diverse African contexts. This is a unique book in African feminist scholarship and is highly recommended. -- Sue Rakoczy, IHM, University of KwaZulu-Natal
The current global ecological crisis brings us full circle to review our theological lenses of salvation and liberation in the context of global power relations of ancient, modern, and contemporary times. This volume brings the inter-sectionality of various layers of history, gender, race, and religions to interrogate the past and the present that has brought us to the current global ecological crisis. The chapters in this volume endeavor to focus our theological acts as acts of healing the Earth and re-imagining what constitutes liberation and salvation. Given the growing global interconnection, characterized by neo-liberal economic policies, driven by the maximization of profit above ethical care for the sanctity of all life, this volume is an important voice of prophecy in the quest of healing and preserving creation community. -- Musa Wenkosi Dube, University of Botswana; Continental Coordinator for the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians
The ecological crisis cannot be seen as a binary. The compounding effects on people minoritized in multiple ways cannot be ignored in the proposed solutions to this crisis. If these are ignored, they will fail or at best unequally succeed. All this gives urgency to listening to the voices of those most affected. This is shown clearly by the important voices of the scholars in the present volume who offer profound insights from their position and experiences as African women. * Angelican & Episcopal Histo