From pandemics to pandemoniums: illness, healing, redemption from a black and feminist Latin American spirituality
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Feminist theology, Body, Territory, Memory and spiritualityAbstract
Starting from a contextual approach to the situation of disease, violence and feminicide aggravated after the COVID-19 pandemic against women, the author analyzes the link between religion and health, healing and redemption in order to offer some ethical guidelines to overcome the current social, religious and cultural pandemics that affect the life and health of black women in particular. It approaches the categories of health, healing and redemption from the Jewish and Christian traditions in their intersectionality with Black and feminist spirituality. Based on the concept of vital interrevelation, it draws on Afrodiasporic Bantu, Yoruba and Afro-Colombian ancestral traditions, emphasizing the importance of the earth and plants in this process of restoring personal, communal and eco-environmental healing. It appeals to a black and feminist spirituality of redemption of sick, stigmatized, mutilated and fragmented bodies. It rescues the body as fullness of life, of transcendence, of vital experiences that challenge the western philosophical episteme towards a new learning based on historically subalternized knowledge.
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