AAR Book Review of “Embracing the Other”

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Dr. Theresa Yugar wrote a beautiful review of my latest book, Embracing the Other for the new AAR Book Review site: Reading Religion. 

If you would like review or exam copies of Embracing the Other, please do contact me.

My other books are available for review on Reading Religion. Click on the image of the books on the Reading Religion site to request to review the books.

Below is a short segment of Dr. Yugar’s book review of Embracing the Other.

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Feminist Reconstruction of Biography and Text

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I endorsed an excellent new book by Dr. Theresa Yugar, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Feminist Reconstruction of Biography and Text.

Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether wrote a wonderful Foreword to the book.

Below is an excerpt from Amazon.com.

In Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Feminist Reconstruction of Biography and Text, Yugar invites you to accompany Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a seventeenth-century protofeminist and ecofeminist, on her lifelong journey within three communities of women in the Americas.

“U.S. Latina Feminist Paradigm: Model of an Inclusive Twenty-first Century Ecclesiology”

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This is a wonderful blog by Theresa Yugar who is a contributor in my upcoming book, Reimagining with Christian Doctrines (Palgrave) co-edited with Jenny Daggers.

In 1993, I entered Harvard Divinity School. I was a young Latina scholar. I remember calling Pilar Aquino, my mentor from my alma mater, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles.  I called her distressed because I felt alone in a big institution without family and friends. Her words to me that evening continue to echo in my mind when the

AAR: Reimagining with Christian Doctrines

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My fourth book, Reimagining with Christian Doctrines:  Responding to Global Gender Injustices (Palgrave) co-edited with Jenny Daggers will be published February 2014.

This collection of essays from a diverse group of respected feminist theologians “reimagines” the doctrines of creation, Trinity, resurrection, incarnation, church, and sin in creative and always embodied ways. In particular, they seek to hear and to respond to the cries of the suffering