Espiritualidad ecofeminista en América Latina

Abstract

Without a doubt, we are living in a time of crisis. One answer to this crisis is ecofeminism, whose core insight is that the oppression of women and the destruction of the planet are a result of the same patriarchal sysem. Interest in ecofeminism began in Latin America in the 1990s. Two of Latin America's most well-known feminist theologians -Ivone Gebara and Elsa Tamez- name ecofeminism as the third phase of Latin American feminist theology. Indeed, there is a growing number of women who, in the 1970s and 1980s were political and social activists and identified with liberation theology and its practice, but who today define themselves as “ecofeminists”. This is evident in the way in which they perceive themselves in relation to the earth and to the cosmos; in the way they are re-naming or re-imaging God: in their beliefs about death and resurrection: and in the changes in their ethical postures and spiritual practices.