Loughlin

Gebundenes Buch

Queer Theology

Beschreibung

Queer Theology makes an important contribution to public debate about Christianity and sex. This remarkable collection of essays reconceptualizes the body and its desires, enlarging the meaning of sexuality for the good of the churches. Written by some of the most able and insightful of Anglo-American scholars, established and up-coming, and from a variety of academic and religious backgrounds, the book shows how western bodies are queerer than often thought, and that the same is true of the God who elicits and tutors their desires.

Autor

Gerard Loughlin is Professor of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham. His previous publications include Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology (1996) and Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (Blackwell, 2004). He is a co-editor of the Journal Theology and Sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 888g
• ISBN-13: 9780631216070
• ISBN-10: 0631216073
• Artikelnr.: 22295036

Rezensionen

"That being said, I would still recommend this book,because it makes a valuable contribution to an important and timelydiscussion." (INTAMS review - Journal for the Studyof Marriage & Spirituality, 18 January 2012)

"Queer Theology manages to maintain both coherence and aconsistently high level of theory, debate and reflectionthroughout. While it will certainly become indispensable for thoseworking in theologies of gender, the body and sexuality, its broadcatholicity and the intellectual accomplishment of its contributorsmake it attractive reading for theologians of all stripes."(Theology, March 2009)

"A broad and valuable resource ... .It] considers"real world" implications ... .Mov[ing] towardloving and nourishing notions

of God and world."(Religious Studies Review)"Well researched and passionately argued, this importantcollection of essays makes an original contribution to queertheology and to the debate about theology and sexuality in thetwenty-first century."
-Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid, University of Edinburgh

"Several elements combine to make this collection the mostimpressive outing yet for queer theology: the intellectual statureof so many of its contributors; the principled threading oftheoretical rigor with an activist ethos that characterizes so muchof its contents; and the panoramic historical sweep of the projectas a whole. This volume is essential reading for all theologiansand not just queer ones; for, as its editor rightly notes, theologyhas always been a much queerer enterprise than most of us haverecognized."
-Stephen D. Moore, Drew University