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Gender, ethnicity, and lived religion
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Gender, ethnicity, and lived religion book
Gender, ethnicity, and lived religion
DOI link for Gender, ethnicity, and lived religion
Gender, ethnicity, and lived religion book
ABSTRACT
Feminist theologies bring yet another aspect to both contextual and liberation theologies by also challenging their androcentrism. However, it is difficult to consider race, gender, or ethnicity as a “context” in the sense in which it is usually understood in more culturally inclined contextual theologies. The problem of much of feminist theorising, in Latin America and elsewhere, has been a superficial and often non-existent interaction with and lack of knowledge of gender studies of religion, including feminist theology. The issue of gender becomes particularly crucial when theologians take culture as a point of departure. Theologians could dialogue much more with ethnologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and gender scholars in order not to make overly broad and generalised claims about women/gender or indigenous people. Issues of ethnicity, at least in Latin American liberation theology, have suffered from similar superficiality and absence to gender issues.