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Place of Birth: SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil
About Ivone Gebara
- Ivone Gebara (born 1944) is a Brazilian Catholic nun, philosopher, and feminist theologian.Ivone Gebara was born in SĂŁo Paulo on December 9, 1944 to a family of Syrian-Lebanese descent.
- After receiving a degree in philosophy, she joined the Augustinian Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady in 1967 at the age of 22.
- She earned a Ph.D.
- in philosophy from the PontifĂcia Universidade CatĂłlica de SĂŁo Paulo. Gebara taught at the Instituto TeolĂłgico do Recife (ITER) for almost 17 years alongside founder HĂ©lder CĂąmara.
- Linked to liberation theology, the institution existed from 1968 until it was closed by order of the Vatican in 1989.
- Since then she has devoted her time to writing and delivering courses and lectures around the world, on the foundations of religious discourse. Since 1973 Gebara has lived in the Northeast Region.
- She currently lives in a poor neighborhood of Camaragibe in the Recife metropolitan area, 25 km from Recife. In the 1990s, Gebara was tried and convicted by the Vatican for criticizing the moral teaching of the Church, especially due to comments she made in an interview printed in Veja magazine in regard to abortion.
- She was ordered to two years of forced silence.
- During that time, she obtained her second doctorate, in Religious Studies from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.
- Gebara wrote a book addressing evil, Rompendo o silĂȘncio: uma fenomenologia feminista do mal.
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