The Queer God Althaus-Reid Marcella Paperback
The Queer God Althaus-Reid Marcella Paperback 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. But what goodness and…
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The Queer God Althaus-Reid Marcella Paperback
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. But what goodness and righteousness can prevail if you are in love with someone whom you are ecclesiastically not supposed to love? 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.
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. Where is God in a salsa bar?The Queer God introduces a new theology from the margins of sexual deviance and economic exclusion. Inspired by the transgressive spaces of Latin American spirituality, where the