Introduction: Mother Earth and Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies
Sophia Chirongoma and Esther Mombo
Part 1: Introductory Mapping
1.30 Years of African Women’s Liberation Theology
Esther Mombo and Sophia Chirongoma
Part 2: Envisioning Mother Africa’s Liberation through Textual Exploration
2.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
3.A Kenyan Postcolonial Feminist Rereading of the Fourth Gospel: Towards a Christology for Eco- and Gender Justice
Lydia Chemei
Part 3: Earth Friendly and Eco-Feminist Hermeneutics
4.“On Earth as It Is in Heaven”: Conversations between Musa Dube’s Earth-Friendly Hermeneutics and Sallie McFague’s Ecological Theology
Megan Bedford-Strohm
5.The Cry of the Earth Is the Cry of Women: Ecofeminisms in Critical Dialogue with Laudato Si’
Nontando Hadebe
Part 4: Mother Africa and Postcolonial Musings on Eco-Justice
6.African Women as Environmental Freedom Fighters
Yoknyam Dabale
7.The Discourse of Drought: Ongoing Gendered Inequality of Water Access in Cape Town, and the Implications for Public Theology
Alease Brown
8.“Redeeming the Land….” Pentecostalism, Neo-colonialism, and Re-imagining Africa
Kudzai Biri
9.Voices from the Margins: Religio-Cultural Perspectives of Women, Children, and the Elderly amidst the Tokwe-Mukosi Dam Displacements in Zimbabwe
Sophia Chirongoma