
Integrating Ecofeminism Globalization and World Religions
Author(s): Rosemary Radford Ruether (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date: 2 Dec. 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 0742535290
- ISBN-13: 9780742535299
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
This timely volume represents a summons to broaden our approaches to religions, ecofeminism, and social change. Ruether gathers insights for a new path honouring diversity, supporting feminist efforts, and resisting corporate globalization. — Heather Eaton
Her slim volume demonstrates curiosity about, and insight into, an impressive array of theories, ethics, religious and spiritual worldviews, and resistance movements. Hers is a sweeping analysis of the theory and theology of ecofeminism, and the way and extent to which major world religions have addressed both global ecology and gender politics. — Fiona Robinson ―
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist PhilosophyIt’s no surprise considering the author, but this book is of fundamental importance―a clear and powerful statement of where we are and where, with a lot of luck and hard work and divine intervention, we might be headed. — Bill McKibben, author of “Radio Free Vermont”
The world faces three major conflicts in our times―the economic conflicts and polarization of corporate globalisation, conflicts based on ‘religions’ identities redefined by ‘fundamentalisms’ and the conflicts and violence of patriarchies. Rosemary Radford Ruether in Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions has woven together issues usually addressed in isolation. She has articulated a feminist and spiritual perspective, which creates non-violent possibilities in the midst of the ‘inevitabilities’ of the violence of corporate rule and religious fundamentalism. — Vandana Shiva
Rosemary Radford Ruether has written cutting-edge works in subject after subject. I have commended them all. But if you strapped me down and denied me food and drink until I chose only one, I would say, ‘This one! Yes, this one!’ The analyses, proposals, and examples are clear, succinct and wise with years of work. And the subject―integrating ecofeminism, globalization, and greened world religions―carries the import of both surviving and thriving. — Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
[Ruether’s] research is comprehensive and her presentation is both convincing and compelling. This is an important work for any student or professor of theology today. ―
Theological StudiesRosemary Ruether is the first name in feminist studies in religion and this book represents an integration of her most important themes. It’s all here in one place. Great for student’s budgets. — June Watkins, University of West Florida, adopted for Women & Religion
Both novices and experts will find value in this pivotal ecofeminist figure’s newest work….Her book represents the mature development of ecofeminist theory and movements, and is an excellent contribution to ecofeminist and environmental theoretical praxis. ―
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