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Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology: Mothering Matters
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9783319866710 |
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Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
Publication date: | 06/04/2019 |
Edition description: | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 |
Pages: | 308 |
Product dimensions: | 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo is the Edith B. and Arthur E. Earley Assistant Professor of Catholic and Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Her book, The Power and Vulnerability of Love: A Theological Anthropology, draws on women’s experiences of maternity and natality to construct a theology of suffering and redemption anchored in the reality of human vulnerability.
Annie Hardison-Moody is Assistant Professor of Religion and Health in the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences at North Carolina State University. Her work focuses on gender, reproductive health, foods and nutrition, and parenting. Her book, When Religion Matters: Practicing Healing in the Aftermath of the Liberian Civil War is forthcoming from Wipf & Sk Publishers.
Table of Contents
1.- Introduction.- 2.The Race of It All: Conversations between A Mother and Her Son.- 3. Inspired Mothering.- 4. And the “Hall Was Burned to the Ground”: Mothers and Theological Body Knowledge.- 5. Transgressive Mothering As Wo/men’s Human Rights Work… Holiness and the Human.- 6. On Good Mothering: Practicing Solidarity in the Midst of the Breastfeeding Wars.-7. Motherhood as Self-Giving and Self-Receiving Relationship.- 8. A Mother-Whore Is Still a Mother: Revelation 17-18 and African American Motherhood.- 9. Miscarriage Matters, Stillbirth’s Significance, and The Tree of Many Breasts.- 10. Awake My Soul: Mothering Myself toward Recovery.- 11. Oceans of Love and Turbulent Seas: Mothering an Anxious Child and the Spirituality of Ambiguity.- 12. Parenting Elders: Finitude, Gratitude, and Grace.- 13. Motherhood and The (In)vulnerability of the Imago Dei: Being Human In the Mystical-Political Cloud of Impossibility.- 14. In Justice and Love: the Christian life in a home with mental health needs.- 15. “Courage Unparalleled Opened Her Utterly:” A Practical Theodicy.What People are Saying About This
“This is the book every theology class needs! Blending personal narrative with history, sociology, scripture and doctrine, this volume reveals the complexity of the divine call of creation and nurture. The authors give voice to experiences that are usually only whispered – the difficult conversations, anxieties, fears, quiet joys, and shifting spiritualities that compose the various modes in which mothering occurs. This book invokes courage, grace, community and salvation in a way that will change not just how we understand mothering, but that will forever alter how we understand our faith.” (Monica A. Coleman, Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology, author of Making a Way Out of No Way: a Womanist Theology and Bipolar Faith: a Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith)
“Motherhood disrupts our lives and turns our worlds upside down and inside out. As it does, we experience the most powerful love, patience, kindness and goodness imaginable. And we come to realize that grace lies at the heart of the disruptions of mothering. The theological reflections on motherhood shared in this extraordinary book, Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology, shows us how grace enters into the midst of our lives and moves us into profound spaces that challenge, awaken and empower us. This is a beautiful and important book which belongs in everyone’s library.” (Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Associate Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion, author of many books, most recently, Mother Daughter Speak and Embracing the Other)
“Many of us are deeply aware of the complexity and richness of mothering. However being a mother has rarely been publicly acknowledged and understood in the wonderful ways this book does. Without stereotyping or romanticizing motherhood, Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology: Mothering Matters offers multiple deeply insightful accounts of the sacred, fallible, and sometimes tragic realities of being a mother. Racial difference, mental health struggles, and varying sexual orientations, among other factors, are all explored with the underlying assumption that all mothers are created in the image of God. This book is wonderfully accessible and a crucial read for theology.” (Mary McClink Fulkerson, Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School, author of Places of Redemtion and Changing the Subject)
“Taking on motherhood as propaganda promoted in church and society, and dwelling in a multiplicity of experiences of mothering, this emotionally complex and theoretically compelling volume exposes an entangled subjectivity that opens anew the fundamental theological question of what it means to be human. With a diversity of voices that draws out the multiplicity that is motherhood, the volume is unwilling to reduce the complexity, conflict, ambiguity, vulnerability, power, joy and terrorof our being in the world in relation to others. Each as provocative and profound as the next, their voices form a chorus of deep theological reflection from out of the embodied knowledge of particular human experiences.” (Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Professor of Theology, Fordham University, author of Motherhood as Metaphor: Engendering Interreligious Dialogue)
“In this substantial contribution to the literature that places bearing and raising children squarely in the public realm, Claire Bischoff, Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo, and Annie Hardison-Moody have commissioned trenchant essays by both senior and junior scholars that paint a picture of mothering in contemporary society. With brutal honesty, they describe the situations in which we actually form children—mental and physical illness, the violence of structural racism, myriad and no family structures—and distill from these formation practices gritty, robust visions of motherhood shot through with the honest ambivalence of real parenting. Here are the spiritual practices that women create to accomplish the contradictory task of protecting children from a complex, often hostile world and equipping them to thrive in it.” (Cristina L.H. Traina, Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern, author of Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality Between Unequals)