RT Article
T1 The Personal is Political: The Politics of Liberation in Mennonite-Feminist Theologies
JF Political theology
VO 22
IS 3
SP 192
OP 210
A1 Loewen, Susanne Guenther
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1757607331
AB Maxwell Kennel recently wondered why the majority of Mennonite-feminist theologians do not identify as political theologians. The article responds to this question in two parts using the feminist slogan, “the personal is political” to broaden the definition of the political in traditional Mennonite political theologies. First, this article distinguishes traditional Mennonite political theologies from liberation theologies, including feminist theologies, which presume that all theology is political. Liberation theologies begin with socio-political experience and an analysis of power dynamics from marginalized perspectives, which today include intersectional and hybridized identities, such as Mennonite-feminist. Secondly, this article explores the feminist-liberationist theological method in Malinda Berry’s reclamation of Mennonite cookbook author Doris Janzen Longacre as a “more-with-less” theologian. This article follows and extends Longacre’s Mennonite-feminist approach to nonconformity, peacemaking, and theological method of highlighting the political and theo-ethical implications of personal decisions around food, homemaking, and economic and ecological justice.
K1 gendered power dynamics
K1 Liberation
K1 Peace
K1 Political Theology
K1 Mennonite-feminist
K1 Feminist Theology
K1 Mennonite theology
DO 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1905334