Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions addresses the practical relevance of the interconnection of feminism, ecology, and religious theological thought, and will ask questions about the lack of attention to gender issues in both ecological theology and deglobalization theory. The book knits together four concerns: globalization, interfaith ecological theology, ecofeminism, and deglobalization movements and thought. It examines how gender needs to be connected with inter-faith ecological theology and with critical analysis of globalization. It asks how to connect theory and practice; and how theoretical views about a more earth friendly theology have actual relevance to the deglobalization struggle. The book looks at these issues comparatively across different world religions and across different regions of the earth.
Rosemary Radford Ruether is professor of feminist theology at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Corporate Globalization and the Deepening of Earth's Impoverishment Chapter 2 The Greening of World Religions Chapter 3 Ecofeminist Thea/ologies and Ethics Chapter 4 Alternatives to Corporate Globalization: Is a Different World Possible?
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Vandana Shiva
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.
