“This is the book every theology class needs! Blending personal narrative with history, sociology, scripture and doctrine, this volume reveals the complexity of the divine call of creation and nurture. The authors give voice to experiences that are usually only whispered – the difficult conversations, anxieties, fears, quiet joys, and shifting spiritualities that compose the various modes in which mothering occurs. This book invokes courage, grace, community and salvation in a way that will change not just how we understand mothering, but that will forever alter how we understand our faith.” (Monica A. Coleman, Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology, author of Making a Way Out of No Way: a Womanist Theology and Bipolar Faith: a Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith)
“Motherhood disrupts our lives and turns our worlds upside down and inside out. As it does, we experience the most powerful love, patience, kindness and goodness imaginable. And we come to realize that grace lies at the heart of the disruptions of mothering. The theological reflections on motherhood shared in this extraordinary book, Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology, shows us how grace enters into the midst of our lives and moves us into profound spaces that challenge, awaken and empower us. This is a beautiful and important book which belongs in everyone’s library.” (Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Associate Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion, author of many books, most recently, Mother Daughter Speak and Embracing the Other)
“Many of us are deeply aware of the complexity and richness of mothering. However being a mother has rarely been publicly acknowledged and understood in the wonderful ways this book does. Without stereotyping or romanticizing motherhood, Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology: Mothering Matters offers multiple deeply insightful accounts of the sacred, fallible, and sometimes tragic realities of being a mother. Racial difference, mental health struggles, and varying sexual orientations, among other factors, are all explored with the underlying assumption that all mothers are created in the image of God. This book is wonderfully accessible and a crucial read for theology.” (Mary McClintock Fulkerson, Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School, author of Places of Redemtion and Changing the Subject)
“Taking on motherhood as propaganda promoted in church and society, and dwelling in a multiplicity of experiences of mothering, this emotionally complex and theoretically compelling volume exposes an entangled subjectivity that opens anew the fundamental theological question of what it means to be human. With a diversity of voices that draws out the multiplicity that is motherhood, the volume is unwilling to reduce the complexity, conflict, ambiguity, vulnerability, power, joy and terror of our being in the world in relation to others. Each as provocative and profound as the next, their voices form a chorus of deep theological reflection from out of the embodied knowledge of particular human experiences.” (Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Professor of Theology, Fordham University, author of Motherhood as Metaphor: Engendering Interreligious Dialogue)
“In this substantial contribution to the literature that places bearing and raising children squarely in the public realm, Claire Bischoff, Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo, and Annie Hardison-Moody have commissioned trenchant essays by both senior and junior scholars that paint a picture of mothering in contemporary society. With brutal honesty, they describe the situations in which we actually form children―mental and physical illness, the violence of structural racism, myriad and no family structures―and distill from these formation practices gritty, robust visions of motherhood shot through with the honest ambivalence of real parenting. Here are the spiritual practices that women create to accomplish the contradictory task of protecting children from a complex, often hostile world and equipping them to thrive in it.” (Cristina L.H. Traina, Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern, author of Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality Between Unequals)
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