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Unsere aktuelle Doppelausgabe 1-2/2025
zum Themenheft »Earth Crisis, Pandemics and Biblical Studies: Perspectives from the ‚Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians« mit folgenden ausgewählten Beiträgen:
Editorial
Thomas Jürgasch / Sebastian Pittl / Stephan Winter
Am Ersten Advent des letzten Jahres wurde Prälat Dr. Klaus Krämer zum neuen Bischof der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart geweiht, wozu auch wir herzlich gratulieren und zum neuen Dienst Gottes reichen Segen wünschen!
Wir freuen uns, dass mit Klaus Krämer ein Bischof gewählt worden ist, den – neben vielen anderen Qualitäten – seine weltkirchliche Expertise und Vernetzung auszeichnet. Krämer war schon ab 1999 als Leiter der Hauptabteilung „Weltkirche“ im Bischöflichen Ordinariat der Diözese entsprechend tätig und dann von Oktober 2008 bis August 2019 Präsident des Internationalen Katholischen Missionswerks missio in Aachen, seit 2010 zusätzlich für das Kindermissionswerk „Die Sternsinger“.
Sidney K. Berman / Musa W. Dube / Dorcas Chebet Juma / Florence Egbeyale
Introduction
Background: Covid 19, Pandemics and Earth Crisis
In July 2019, before the world foresaw the Covid 19 catastrophe, the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (henceforth called the Circle), chose to focus on the research theme of Earth, Gender, Religions and Sustainable Development Goals. The Circle’s attention was on the effects of anthropocentricism on the environment, their impacts on the lives of women, African women and the two thirds world, advocacy for environmental conservation, and measures to better the lives of African women in view of the Earth crisis. The Circle was already alarmed at the increasingly obvious signs of environmental degradation, global warming and climate change, Cyclone Idai having hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in 2016. In 2023, Cyclone Freddy pounded the same countries with a much-intensified force over a more prolonged time and space.
Reimagining Famine, Fields, and Food in the Book of Ruth
The early absence of food unveils Ruth’s tale. By the close of the opening chapter, food returns to Bethlehem, as do Naomi, Ruth, and the harvest (1:22). Midway through, Ruth, a Moabite at Boaz’s field, is invited by Boaz, a worthy farm owner, to table fellowship and to glean freely at Boaz’s plantation. The event at the plantation has been the subject of numerous interpretations that quickly ignore that agriculture, which in antiquity was about power, is at the story’s core. Traditionally, Ruth is interpreted as a heterosexual romance between a wealthy farm owner, Boaz, and a poor widow, Ruth, a foreigner, with Naomi as the mediator of this telenovela love epic. Despite recent scholarly attempts to change this narrative, most commentaries gleaned alongside the “love bubbles” of Ruth, neglecting the theme of famine, hunger, and food within their power structures.
John 1:1–18: Reading the Fourth Gospel in the Context of Climate Change
There is a beautiful Zebra moving within this script! Can you see it? Wow! Well, it is my pleasure to inform you that with my magic wand I have now conferred the status of Zebras upon all of you, my readers. You have just changed! You are now all beautiful, striped Zebras! You see, my last name, Dube, means Zebra! So, I am the beautiful Zebra, in case you are still searching for the beautiful Zebra moving in this article. Culturally, when I greet strangers, I say “Hello Dubes,” that is, Zebras.” I confer my identity on them to perform several acts. First, it serves to inform them of my communal identity. In the ideal Southern African setting, where everyone was born to a community that identified themselves with a particular animal, they would reply and greet me with their own totemic identity.
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