Out of the Depths: Women's Experience of Evil and Salvation

by Ivone Gebara, Ann Patrick Ware

Overview

Whether understood as sin, as embracing all manner of suffering and injustice, or as the inexplicable human choice of evil over good, evil has historically been described and pondered chiefly through male categories understood as a universal viewpoint. Likewise salvation. Gebara here presents an alternative, feminist approach to evil and salvation. She allows women to voice their personal suffering from their own contexts, thereby manifesting their many differences. She then introduces a perspective on evil and salvation based in gender analysis to address specifically "the evil women do," the evil they suffer, and women's redemptive experiences of God and salvation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800634759
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	05/03/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,097,819
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ivone Gebara, a Brazilian Sister of Notre Dame, is one of Latin America's leading women theologians. She holds doctorates in philosophy and religious studies and has taught for many years at the Theology Institute of Recife (ITER). Among her half-dozen books are Trinity: A Word on Things New and Old (1995) and Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation (Fortress Press, 1999).

Table of Contents

Translator's Note

Introduction

Everyday Evil

Evil and Women

A Male View of Evil

Silence about Evil

Feminism in Latin America

Gender

Women's Experience of Evil

A Feminist Phenomenology

The Power of Witnessing

Women's "evils" Seen through the Lens of Justice

My Own Story

Evil and Gender

The Concept of Gender

The Relativity of Difference

Gender as a Hermeneutical Tool

Gender and Epistemology

Gender, Difference, and Violence

Nature and Culture

Gender and Women's Experience of Evil

The Evil Women Do

Women Weaving the Cloth of Evil

Women of the World

Religion, Violence, and Women

The Feminine Face of Religious Violence

Women's Experience of Salvation

Personal and Community Suffering

Everyday Resurrections

Relatedness as a Condition for Life

God for Women

God and the Daily Experience of Poverty

God's Baroque Face

God in the Absence of God

God in the Fabric and Weaving of Life

Epilogue

Notes

A Select Bibliography

Index