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504 Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tables and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Denise Ackerman -- Introduction: Mother Earth, postcolonial and liberation theologies / Sophia Chirongoma and Esther Mombo -- Part I: Introductory mapping: Thirty years of African women's liberation theology / Esther Mombo and Sophia Chirongoma -- Part II: Envisioning Mother Africa's liberation through textual exploration: Sisters of the soil...surviving collective cultural traumatization: intertextualities between Hagar, the Ethiopian virgin girls in the book of Esther, and Mother Africa / Ericka Dunbar -- A Kenyan postcolonial feminist rereading of the fourth gospel: toward a christology for eco- and gender justice / Lydia Chemei -- Part III: Earth-friendly and ecofeminist hermeneutics: "On earth as it is in heaven": conversations between Musa Dube's earth-friendly hermeneutics and Sallie McFague's ecological theology / Megan Bedford-Strohm -- The cry of the earth is the cry of women: ecofeminisms in critical dialogue with laudato si' / Nontando Hadebe -- Part IV: Mother Africa and postcolonial musings on eco-justice: African women as environmental freedom fighters / Yoknyam Dabale -- The discourse of drought: ongoing gendered inequality of water access in Cape Town, and the implications for public theology / Alease Brown -- "Redeeming the land...": Pentecostalism, neocolonialism, and reimagining Africa /Kudzai Biri -- Voices from the margins: religio-cultural perspectives of women, children, and the elderly amid the Tokwe-Mukosi Dam displacements in Zimbabwe / Sophia Chirongoma -- Index -- About the contributors.

"Mother Earth, Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies adds another contribution to the ongoing interrogation of an imminent universal crisis, global warming. Examining the environmental crisis from liberation, postcolonial, and theological lenses in Africa, the continent whose people stand to bear the brunt of ecological catastrophe, the contributors provide fresh perspectives that place this book at the forefront of new research being done across the African continent. The volume serves as a compendium for the intersection of African spirituality, cultural expression, and the earth"--page 4 of cover.

"Anchored on postcolonial and liberation theology, this book examines the global ecological crisis within gender justice discourse. Utilizing textual analysis and empirical studies, the book chapters foreground how the African continent, particularly African women, bear the burden of the ecological catastrophe"--Provided by publisher.