Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
| Ada María Isasi-Díaz | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ada María Isasi-Díaz March 22, 1943 Havana, Cuba |
| Died | May 13, 2012 New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | professor, theologian, author |
| Parent(s) | Josefina Díaz Isasi (mother) Domingo G. Isasi-Battle (father) |
| Relatives | Lourdes Pérez-Albuerne (sister) Domingo Isasi-Díaz (brother) José Isasi Díaz (brother) Graciella M. Isasi-Díaz (sister) Mari Isasi-Díaz (sister) M. Teresita Isasi-Díaz (sister) Gloria M. Isasi-Díaz (sister) |
| Website | http://users.drew.edu/aisasidi/ |
Ada María Isasi-Díaz (March 22, 1943 – May 13, 2012) was professor emerita of ethics and theology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. As a Hispanic theologian, she was an innovator of Hispanic theology in general and specifically of mujerista theology. She was founder and co-director of the Hispanic Institute of Theology at Drew University.
Isasi-Díaz was born and raised in Havana, Cuba to a Roman Catholic family. She graduated from Merici Academy in 1960 and arrived in the United States as a political refugee later that year. She entered the Order of St. Ursula and earned a B.A. from the College of New Rochelle in New York. In 1967, she went to Lima, Peru as a missionary for three years. Upon returning to the United States in 1969, she taught high-school for several years in Louisiana, then lived in Spain for 16 months before returning again to the United States. She settled in Rochester, New York. Isasi-Díaz earned a master of arts in medieval history from SUNY Brockport. In 1983, she continued her graduate studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City where she earned both a Master of Divinity degree and a Ph.D. with a concentration in Christian Ethics in 1990. In 2006, she was awarded a Doctor of Divinity honoris causa from Colgate University.
Her studies and involvement in the feminist theological movement led her to begin to develop a theology from the perspective of Latinas in the United States, which led to the development of mujerista theology. This theology included their religious experiences, practices, and responses to the daily struggles of life. Early in her career Ada was very involved in the Women’s Ordination movement within the Catholic Church. Because of this, Latina women living in the USA who are keenly aware of how sexism, ethnic prejudice and economic oppression subjugate them, use the term mujerista to refer to themselves and use mujerista theology to refer to the explanations of their faith and its role in their struggle for liberation. was on the faculty of the Theological and Graduate Schools of Drew University from 1991 to 2012. She was a panelist and occasional contributor to the "On Faith" on-line discussions at the Washington Post and Newsweek.
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