Marian Reflections on War and Peace

This book presents an original Marian approach towards war and peace, dedicated to the suffering of children, women and men in Mariupol and elsewhere in Ukraine and in the world.

Autorentext

Lenart kof is Head of the Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies at the Science and Research Centre in Koper, Slovenia, and Dean of Faculty ISH at the Alma Mater Europaea University (Ljubljana, Slovenia). He is a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, Salzburg) and the President of Slovenian Society for Comparative Religion.

Emily A. Holmes is Professor of Religious Studies at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, USA. Her current work focuses on community-based spiritual and ethical practices related to growing, sharing, and eating food using an incarnational theological framework.

Pavlo Smytsnyuk is Petrach Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He specializes in political theology and social ethics in a comparative perspective.

Inhalt

Foreword by Peter Howard; Foreword by Yuri Shchurko; Foreword by Ale Maver; Editorial Introduction by Lenart kof, Emily Holmes and Pavlo Smytsnyuk; 1. Women between Sacrifice and Defence: Reading the Bible amid the War in Ukraine - Halyna Teslyuk; 2. The Queen of Peace Cradling a Rocket Launcher: Sacralization of War and Peace, Collective Responsibility and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Pavlo Smytsnyuk; 2/ MARIAN PEACE AND JUSTICE BETWEEN TRAUMA AND MOURNING; 4. Motherly Choices in Times of War, Through the Lens of Marian Trauma Theology - Heleen Zorgdrager; 5. Marian Peace for the Children who Suffer in War - Lenart kof; 6. 'She who Ripens the Grain': Food Justice, Solidarity, and the Incarnation - Emily A. Holmes; 7. Stabat Mater Dolorosa: Marian Mourning as Peace-Oriented Response to the Sorrows of Our World - Yves De Maeseneer; 8. Mary, Our Lady of Liberation: Mary in The Context of Occupied Palestine - Marie-Claire Klassen; 9. Mary, A Mother and Sister of All Wounded: A Transnational Feminist Reading of Mariology in Response to Militarism - Min-Ah Cho; 10. Mary as an Interreligious and Cross-Cultural Symbol of Peace in South Asia - Joe Evans; 11. Mary, Queen of Peace in Twentieth-Century Apparitions - Chris Maunder.