Indecent Theology

by Althaus-Reid,Marcella
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-01-16
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

By examining the dialectics of decency and indecency and exploring a theology of sexual stories from the margins, this book brings together for the first time Liberation Theology, Queer Theory, post-Marxism and Postcolonial analysis are brought together in an explosive mixture.Indecent Theologyis an out of the closet style of doing theology and shows how we can reflect on the Virgin Mary and on Christology from 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The fragrance of Women's Liberation Theology: odours of sex and lemons on the streets of Buenos Aires 1(1)
In Buenos Aires
2(2)
The continuation of Liberation Theology
4(2)
Feminist Liberation Theology: the Caminata continues
6(5)
Indecent proposals for women who would like to do theology without using underwear
11(36)
The collapse of the Grand Narratives of Latin America: theology and sexual mutilations
11(8)
On Liberation Theology: a history of usury
19(2)
How theological work is alienated from the workers
21(2)
The market of Systematic Theology: lemons, senora, and some hermeneutical circles me compra pue . . .
23(4)
Indecency and liberation
27(6)
On Teologia Feminista Latina: the poverty of sexuality
33(4)
Theology `with women's eyes'
37(2)
In bed with the Madonna
39(1)
Mary Mother of God, Mummy of the Poor?
40(4)
Does theology need an anthropology or Mujeriology?
44(3)
The indecent Virgin
47(40)
Sexual positions: locating the G(od) spot of virginal reflections
47(3)
Worthy speculations: investing in the Virgin
50(1)
Vanilla Mariology
51(6)
Making theological violence sexy
57(3)
What does the Guadalupana have under her skirts?
60(3)
Mary, Queer of Heaven and Mother of Faggots . . .
63(8)
Mary as a historic figure? Now, that is Queer
71(3)
Are there any skeletons hidden in the Virginal cupboard?
74(4)
Mary, the drag queen (or is it Jesus cross-dressing?)
78(1)
The popular theology of transvestism
79(4)
La Difunta Correa (The Deceased Correa) and other loose canons of popular Sexual Theology
83(4)
Talking obscenities to theology: theology as a sexual act
87(38)
Perlverting Systematic Theology and the case of Vanilla Christianity
87(2)
Indecent models of God: perlverting interpretations
89(7)
Pure simulations: terror and obscenity in the Gospel family
96(3)
Per/verse variations: Un Amor de Chicas Muertas
99(3)
By purity and by viscosity: obscene thoughts of the Single-God
102(8)
Obscentity as the way to avoid unnecessary transcendence
110(2)
Some theological per/versions
112(13)
The theology of sexual stories
125(40)
French kissing God: the sexual hermeneutic circle of interpretation
125(7)
Nationalistic X sex (es)
132(2)
Oral sex: sexual hi/storias in oral theology
134(10)
Systematic theology from the margins of sexuality
144(4)
Black leather: doing theology in corsetlaced boots
148(3)
A Story of fetishism and salvation
151(3)
Theological misfortunes: from bottoms to tops
154(1)
Building the Un-Just Messiah
155(5)
On mediation: does Messianism submit to sexual desires?
160(5)
Grandes medidas economicas: big economic measures: conceptualising global erection processes
165(36)
Colonial souls and the erotic desires of economy
165(11)
Indecency, theology and development
176(1)
Theology follows political thought, and political thought follows heterosexual principles
177(5)
A case study on the sexuality of economics: the case of the shrinking penis
182(2)
Reflecting on the external debt and the shrinking penis phenomenon in Argentina
184(2)
On torture and debts
186(2)
Economic erections, global erections
188(6)
Sexually dubious, economically deviant: theology contra natura
194(1)
On Queers, revolutionaries and theologians
195(6)
Notes 201(4)
Bibliography 205(9)
Index 214

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