Sororidade: uma discussão conceitual, narrativas bíblicas e a experiência dos encontros de ministras da IECLB

Abstract

The human experience with which feminist theology occupies itself is the real and daily experience which is loaded with knowledges and ways which mark the bodies and histories of each person. One of these experiences is lived out in friendship relationships. For feminist theology the term used is sorority, which means the unity and alliance between women based on empathy and companionship, seeking to reach common goals. Sorority empowers women in different spaces of life. Sorority proposes a pact of alliance, of strengthening, of complicity and desires the transformation of the relations in a patriarchal and unjust society as regards gender relations. Based on this perspective, this paper presents a conceptual discussion on sorority in the field of feminist studies and of feminist theology, recovers biblical narratives using exegeses and feminist biblical hermeneutics which express the experience of sorority and makes a brief historical review of the Women Ministers’ Gatherings in the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession in Brazil (IECLB), having sorority as the key for analysis. In this way it seeks to give visibility to the beautiful journey of gatherings which the women ministers of the IECLB have trailed in 35 years of ordination, observing as background the Bible narratives, the work tool of the women ministers who announce life and denounce injustice. The examples of sorority in the Bible give support, strengthen, animate and encourage ordained women to preserve safe spaces of encounter, sharing, experiences and sororal living experiences at each step of the journey, where together they support and empower each other with respect and friendship.