Catalog description for
Indecent Theology
by Marcella Althaus-Reid, published by Routledge:
Examining the dialectics of decency and indecency and exploring a
theology of sexual stories from the margins is the focus of
Indecent Theology. For the first time, liberation theology,
queer theory, post-Marxism, and postcolonial analysis are brought
together in an explosive mixture. This is an out of the closet style
of doing theology and shows how we can reflect on the Virgin Mary and
on Christology through sexual stories taken from fetishism, leather
lifestyles, and transvestism. It is based on the sexual experiences of
the poor, using economic and political analysis while unveiling the
sexual ideology of systematic theology.
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