Althaus-Reid - The Queer God

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THE QUEER GOD
There are those who go to gay bars and salsa clubs with rosaries in their pockets,
and who make camp chapels of their living rooms. Others enter churches with
love letters hidden in their bags, because their need for God and their need for
love refuse to fit into different compartments. But what goodness and righteous-
ness can prevail if you are in love with someone whom you are ecclesiastically not
supposed to love? Where is God in a salsa bar?
The Queer God
introduces a new theology from the margins of sexual deviance
and economic exclusion. Its chapters on Bisexual Theology, Sadean holiness, gay
worship in Brazil and Queer sainthood mark the search for a different face of
God – the Queer God who challenges the oppressive powers of heterosexual
orthodoxy, whiteness and global capitalism. Inspired by the transgressive spaces
of Latin American spirituality, where the experiences of slum children merge with
Queer interpretations of grace and holiness,
The Queer God
seeks to liberate God
from the closet of traditional Christian thought, and to embrace God’s part in
the lives of gays, lesbians and the poor.
Only a theology that dares to be radical can show us the presence of God in
our times.
The Queer God
creates a concept of holiness that overcomes sexual and
colonial prejudices and shows how Queer Theology is ultimately the search for
God’s own deliverance. Using Liberation Theology and Queer Theory, it
exposes the sexual roots that underlie all theology, and takes the search for God
to new depths of social and sexual exclusion.
Marcella Althaus-Reid
is Senior Lecturer in Christian Ethics and Practical
Theology at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of
Indecent Theology
,
also published by Routledge.
Este libro esta dedicado a todos mis amigos y amores y para todos aquellos que en la
vida andan como yo, ‘sueltos y sin vacunar’, buscando a Dios en medio de amores,
amoríos y tántas soledades.
THE QUEER GOD
Marcella Althaus-Reid
First published 2003
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.
© 2003 Marcella Althaus-Reid
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ISBN 0-203-33145-1 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-38721-X (Adobe eReader Format)
ISBN 0–415–32323–1 (hbk)
ISBN 0–415–32324–X (pbk)
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