| Sumario: | zThis 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 spiritualties 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.y —Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology, USA zMotherhood 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 show us how grace enters into the midst of our lives and moves us into profound spaces that challenge, awaken and empower us.y —Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Earlham School of Religion, USA This volume investigates how mothers can understand parenting as spiritual practice, and what this practice means for theological scholarship. An intergenerational and intercultural group of mother-scholars explores these questions that arise at the intersection of motherhood studies, religious practice, pastoral care, and theology through engaging and accessible essays. Essays include both narrative and theological elements, as authors draw on personal reflection, interviews, and/or sociological studies to write about the theological implications of parenting practice, rethink key concepts in theology, and contribute to a more robust account of parenting as spiritual practice from various theological perspectives. The volume both challenges oppressive, religious images of self-sacrificing motherhood and considers the spiritual dimensions of mothering that contribute to women’s empowerment and well-being. It also deepens practical and systematic theologies to include concern for the embodied and everyday challenges and joys of motherhood as it is experienced and practiced in diverse contexts of privilege and marginalization. .
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