The Queer God
Marcella Althaus-Reid
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Description for The Queer God
Paperback. This study aims to liberate God from the heterosexual closet of traditional Christian thought and embrace his part in the lives of gays and lesbians worldwide. Its chapters build on the subversive sexual elements found in Latin American, African and Asian Christianities. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 306.
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 righteousness 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415323246
SKU
V9780415323246
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for The Queer God
'This is a provocative book ... there is a tremendous energy, a delight, an exuberance.' - Dr. Kevin Ward, Church Times 'Althaus-Reid's reinterpretation of the eros of the Trinity is particularly compelling ... This is an important book.' - The Expository Times 'This is an important book. It is also a witty, poetic and disreputable text with bodily ... Read more