"This study explores the meaning of justification in the framework of Latin American theology of liberation, which is a particular way of doing theology welcomed by both Catholics and Protestants. In this theology, the poor, 'oppressed and believing, ' constitute the privileged locus of theology. That is to say, theology is done from their reality of oppression-liberation and their experience of God. Every great theological theme, every biblical reading, must be reexamined from that angle of vision." (from the Introduction, by Elsa Tamez)

To the many people in hopeless situations today, especially in Central America, Tamez brings a message of hope and affirmation through the Book of Ecclesiastes.

Introduction: The body and religion: Regina Ammicht-Quinn and Elsa Tamez -- The perfect body: biomedical utopias: Hille Haker -- The superfluous body: utopias of information and communication technology: Klaus Wiegerling -- The cultural coding of the male and female body: Christina Von Braun -- Re-evaluating the body in eco-feminism: Rosemary Radford Reuther -- The world as God's body: Sally McFague -- Dichotomy or union of soul and body? The origins of the ambivalence of Christianity to the body: Jean-Guy Nadeau -- Corporeality and mysticism: Tina Beattie -- The immobile dance: the body and...