Indecent theology : theological perversions in sex, gender and politics / Marcella Althaus-Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Althaus-Reid, Marcella.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exhibitionism.

Feminist theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Indecent Theology brings liberation theology up to date by introducing the radical critical approaches of gender, postcolonial, and queer theory. Grounded in actual examples from Latin America, Marcella Althaus-Reid's highly provocative, but immaculately researched book reworks three distinct areas of theology - sexual, political and systematic. It exposes the connections between theology, sexuality and politics, whilst initiating a dramatic sexual rereading of systematic theology.Groundbreaking, intriguing and scholarly, Indecent Theology broadens the debate on sexuality

Contents:

Indecent Theology Theological perversions in sex, gender and politics; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The fragrance of Women's Liberation Theology: odours of sex and lemons on the streets of Buenos Aires; In Buenos Aires; The continuation of Liberation Theology; Feminist Liberation Theology: the Caminata continues; 1 Indecent proposals for women who would like to do theology without using underwear; The collapse of the Grand Narratives of Latin America: theology and sexual mutilations; On Liberation Theology: a history of usury; How theological work is alienated from the workers

The market of Systematic Theology: lemons, seiiora, and some hermeneutical circles me compra pué ...Indecency and liberation; On Teologia Feminista Latina: the poverty of sexuality; Theology 'with women's eyes'; In bed with the Madonna; Mary Mother of God, Mummy of the Poor?; Does theology need an anthropology or Mujeriology?; 2 The indecent Virgin; Sexual positions: locating the G(od) spot of virginal reflections; Worthy speculations: investing in the Virgin; Vanilla Mariology; Making theological violence sexy; What does the Guadalupana have under her skirts?

Mary, Queer of Heaven and Mother of Faggots ...Mary as a historic figure? Now, that is Queer; Are there any skeletons hidden in the Virginal cupboard?; Mary, the drag queen (or is it Jesus cross-dressing?); The popular theology of transvestism; La Difunta Correa (The Deceased Correa) and other loose canons of popular Sexual Theology; 3 Talking obscenities to theology: theology as a sexual act; Perlverting Systematic Theology and the case of Vanilla Christianity; Indecent models of God: perlverting interpretations; Pure simulations: terror and obscenity in the Gospel family

Per/verse variations: Un Amor de Chicas Muertas By purity and by viscosity: obscene thoughts of the Single-God; Obscenity as the way to avoid unnecessary transcendence; Some theological per/versions; 4 The theology of sexual stories; French kissing God: the sexual hermeneutic circle of interpretation; Nationalistic X sex(es); Oral sex: sexual hi/storias in oral theology; Systematic theology from the margins of sexuality; Black leather: doing theology in corset laced boots; A story of fetishism and salvation; Theological misfortunes: from bottoms to tops; Building the Un-Just Messiah

On mediation: does Messianism submit to sexual desires?5 Grandes medidas economicas: big economic measures: conceptualising global erection processes; Colonial souls and the erotic desires of economy; Indecency, theology and development; Theology follows political thought, and political thought follows heterosexual principles; A case study on the sexuality of economics: the case of the shrinking penis; Reflecting on the external debt and the shrinking penis phenomenon in Argentina; On torture and debts; Economic erections, global erections

Sexually dubious, economically deviant: theology contra natura

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-213) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-56255-1

1-134-56256-X

1-280-40407-8

0-203-46895-3

9780203468951

OCLC:

50875239