Rosemary Radford Ruether
Born
in Saint Paul, Minnesota, The United States
November 02, 1936
Died
May 21, 2022
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“If dominating and destructive relations to the earth are interrelated with gender, class, and racial domination, then a healed relation to the earth cannot come about simply through technological 'fixes'. It demands a social reordering to bring about just and loving interrelationship between men and women, between races and nations, between groups presently stratified into social classes, manifest in great disparities of access to the means of life. In short, it demands that we must speak of eco-justice, and not simply of domination of the earth as though that happened unrelated to social domination.”
― Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing – A Path to Wholeness for Men, Women, and Communities Worldwide
― Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing – A Path to Wholeness for Men, Women, and Communities Worldwide
“Domination of women has provided a key link, both socially and symbolically, to the domination of earth, hence the tendency in patriarchal cultures to link women with earth, matter, and nature, while identifying males with sky, intellect, and transcendent spirit.”
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“These three creation stories were shaped in the patriarchal, slave-holding world of early urban civilization in the eastern Mediterranean of the second and first millennia M.C.E. In the Babylonian story that urban world is still new and precarious. Another world, not under male/human control, stands as the earlier beginning, ruled by a huge theriomorphic Great Mother, who gestated all things, gods and cosmic beings, in the mingled waters of her womb. The story mandates her dethronement, and with it a demotion of the female from primal power to secondary consort.
Slavery is a central institution mandated by this story.”
― Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing – A Path to Wholeness for Men, Women, and Communities Worldwide
Slavery is a central institution mandated by this story.”
― Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing – A Path to Wholeness for Men, Women, and Communities Worldwide
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