Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz

Mujerista Theology is a comprehensive introduction to Hispanic woman's liberation theology written from the heart and convictions of experience. Continually drawing on her Cuban roots, Isasi Diaz focuses on the life journey and struggles of Hispanic women as she develops a theology to support and empower their daily struggles for meaning. With her own life journey always firmly connected to the grassroots experience of Hispanic women and to the struggle for liberation, Isasi-Diaz is a major spokesperson for the continuing need for liberation theology today. One of the best-known Hispanic theologians, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz is professor of theology and ethics at The Theological School, Drew University. A popular author and lecturer, she is the author of En La Lucha: A Hispanic Women's Liberation Theology.

In recent decades economic dislocation, immigration, new architecture, and other forces have transformed the physical, social, and even religious landscape of large cities. There gleaming skyscrapers tower over struggling ghettos, abandoned businesses mar upscale shopping areas, and tall-steeple churches sometimes languish where storefront mosques thrive. Exploring the religious significance of this new urban landscape, a group of theologians, members of the Workgroup on Constructive Christian Theology, traveled to select cities and found an exciting, vibrant, and multivoiced religious spirit at work. In these essays five leading American theologians delve deeply into the contemporary spiritual geographies of five cities, capturing, through a mix of personal and historical narrative, political analysis, and theological rumination, a sense of this new sacred space and the spirit aborning there.

Examines the everday struggles, insights, attitudes, and lives of Hispanic women from the perspective of Hispanic identity in North American society, with summaries of the sources, aims, goals, and tenets of mujerista theology.

U.S. Hispanic/Latino voices have emerged in the last ten years to become one of the strongest and most creative theological movements in the Americas. Fully ecumenical and organized in a systematic, collaborative framework, this major volume features Hispanic theology as seen from three perspectives: sources (the Bible, oral tradition, church history, etc, ); loci (urban barrios, exile, liberations, etc.); and rich and vigorous expressions (mujuerista theology, popular religions, and theopoetics).