Liberation Theology and Sexuality is a book about 'doing Liberation Theology in Latin America' in the twenty-first century. The style of doing theology remains the same, but this book reflects the work of a new generation of liberation theologians developing a theology that offers a wider and more complex critique of reality.
Marcella Althaus-Reid is a Reader in Theology and Ethics at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Contents: Introduction, Marcella Althaus-Reid; 'Let them talk...!' Doing liberation theology from Latin American closets, Marcella Althaus-Reid; Once again liberating theology? Towards a Latin American liberation theological self-criticism, Otto Maduro; Queer eye for the straight guy: the making over of liberation theology, a queer discursive approach, Ivan Petrella; Oh que sera, que sera... A limping a/theological thought in Brazil, Claudio Carvalhaes; Commodity aesthetics and the erotics of relationship: challenges of feminist hermeneutics of liberation to market aesthetics, Nancy Cardoso Pereira; The prostitutes also go into the kingdom of God: a queer reading of Mary of Magdala, Martín Hugo Córdova Quero; Liberation theology, modernity and sexual difference, Frederico Pieper Pires; Liberating Mary, liberating the poor, Mario Ribas; Seriously harmful for your health? Religion, feminism and sexuality in Latin America, Elina Vuola; Worship and the excluded, Jaci Maraschin; Love in times of dictatorships: memoirs from a gay minister from Buenos Aires, Roberto González with Norberto D'Amico; Index.