The Feminine (He)Art of Caring and the Power of Feminine Divine as New Ethics of Peace and Ecojustice
The article addresses the question of how femininity and the maternal body are also important in shaping the discourse of giving, forgiving, and caring (also in caring for nature). Consideration of a view of the maternal body as signification, conceived of as an embodiment of ethics, is investigated...
| Subtitles: | Theology of the Oikos |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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| In: |
The ecumenical review
Year: 2018, Volume: 70, Issue: 4, Pages: 651-660 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology NBE Anthropology NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
ecojustice
B Religion B Empathy B (he)art B (for)give B Feminine B Care |
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| Summary: | The article addresses the question of how femininity and the maternal body are also important in shaping the discourse of giving, forgiving, and caring (also in caring for nature). Consideration of a view of the maternal body as signification, conceived of as an embodiment of ethics, is investigated. To bear someone like a maternal body suggests that one need not be a mother, or even a woman, to bear responsibility for the Other (including nature). Cultivation of giving and forgiving as embodied experience and examination of inter-connectedness of giving and forgiving from an ecofeminist perspective are explored. Cultivation of loving hearts and living through our hearts as a feminist principle, and the possibility of understanding forgiveness as transcending anger through an act of love, is understood as a virtue. In this way forgiveness as love directly furthers self-interest through serving the welfare of others, including nature. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12391 |