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International Journal for Theology

2007 / No. 2

Land Conflicts, Land Utopias

Table of Contents

Introduction7–17
Marie-Theres Wacker and Elaine M. Wainwright
I. Land Conflicts Worldwide — Case Studies
Land — God's Gift to All. Zimbabwe's Violent Struggle over Land Ownership19–27
Oskar Wermter
Aboriginal People and Homelands in Canada. The Case of the Dene Tha28–36
Jean-Guy Goulet
The Argument over `Canonical Territory' — an Insoluble Territorial Conflict between the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches?37–46
Heiko Overmeyer

II. Conflicts over the Holy Land
Israel's Acquisition of the Land of Canaan according to Deuteronomy 47–54
Jean Bosco Tchapé

Israel — Utopia to Reality55–60
Hannah Liron

Land, Peoples, and Identities: a Palestinian Perspective61–68
Mitri Raheb

`Eretz Israel' — Alien Mother69–78
Matthias Morgenstern

III. Land Utopias

Land: a Fijian Perspective79–86
Ilaitia S. Tuwere
`If only we had meat! In Egypt we lived well.' Our Hotly-contested and Endangered Mother Earth in the Context of the Mayas87–96
Christoph Gempp
Can the Merchants be driven out of the Temple of Life? An Ecological Feminist Reflection from Latin America97–100
Ivone Gebara
IV. Theological Perspectives

Confronting the `Promised Land Syndrome': Joshua, Justice, and Eco-justice 101–109
Norman Habel
Liberationist Forces deriving from the Land110–117
Marcelo Barros
Homeplace, Paradise, and Landscape — A New Zealand Perspective118–125
Neil Darragh
Non-places: Refugee Camps, Mobility Politics, and an Empty Space in the Structure of Power 126–136
Ulrich Engel


Edited by Marie-Theres Wacker and Elaine M. Wainwright

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