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