Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233589
Laulie Eckeberger
The paradoxical person of the Lesbian-Feminist exists as an intersectional being, living both within the world of the feminist movement and within the queer movement. The feminist movement seeks to deconstruct patriarchy and harmful gender binaries that have perpetually disenfranchised women. When studying queer theory, it becomes clear that the main goal of the queer movement is to deconstruct binaries and gender roles in their totality. This project is unique as it attempts to identify the Lesbian-Feminist as the space in which both of these movements coexist.The Lesbian-Feminist is concerned with both bringing about the full equality of women and working for the full inclusion of LGBTQ people in politics, society, and the church. This research will be situated within the context of theological discourse as we think of the revolution in relation to the person and work of Jesus. Jesus dismantled unjust systems and harmful hierarchal power dynamics and, in doing so, showed us how to truly be the kin-dom of God on earth. Jesus exemplified justice, love, and radical equality, attributes that Christians do not always exemplify as they tend to perpetuate the dominant social structure with its leader, the white, heterosexual, Christian male. The work of the liberation theologian, specifically that of the queer or the feminist theologian, carries on the work of Jesus by continuing to dismantle and disrupt these dominant power structures and social constructions that exclude and deny the full humanity of anyone who is in the margins. Just as Jesus held full equality in divinity and humanity, the Lesbian-Feminist incarnates God’s presence in the world in both her queerness and her womanhood. It seems clear from the recent surge in misogynistic, crassly anti-woman rhetoric and behavior in our culture that there remains a significant amount of work to be done and that we do not live in a post-sexist society. The reaction and resurgence that was the 2017 Women’s March brings to light and rebels against all that seeks to keep us divided along lines of gender, race, and socio-economics. The March, as a gathering of the margins, was a chorus of voices making clear that we will not allow sexism, racism, homophobia, and xenophobia to turn this country backward. Therein lies the importance of the Lesbian-Feminist, that as an intersectional force bringing together two movements, she also brings together the entire revolution.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233591
Ángel Méndez Montoyo
Latin American cuir/questioning theology is a recent field of critical studies that not only draws on queer/questioning thought and activism but also contributes to contemporary sex-gendered dissident proposals. This article presents some epistemic contributions from the transfigurations, twists, “indecencies,” and resignifications of the religious. It is presented as an example of this theological integration to the program of the Doctorate in Critical Gender Studies of the Universidad Iberoamericana. In particular, the proposal of this article aims to analyze the intersection body–gender–religion from a hermeneutic approach of the book Dios cuir, by the Argentinean theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233594a
{"title":"Book Review: Black, Quare, and Then to Where: Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/09667350241233594a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350241233594a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140623526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233594
Lisa Isherwood
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Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233585
Ish Ruiz
The emerging field of queer theology presents both a challenge and an opportunity to contemporary Catholic theology for deeper self-examination. In the context of a synodal Church, whereby the Catholic hierarchy consults and seriously considers the Spirit-guided insights of the sensus fidelium, queer theology can adequately respond to some of the challenges levied against Pope Francis’s inclusive vision. In order to do so, queer theology must be reframed as a project that stems from the lived experiences of the oppressed and their quest toward liberation. This article explores the field of queer theology and addresses some of the most contentious questions among theorists about the scope of the queer project. More importantly, the article synthesizes a historically conscious, eschatologically oriented, liberatory queer theology with Pope Francis’s synodal vision. The first part of this article explores contemporary theology on synodality. The second part explores the genealogy of queer theology. Finally, the third part constructs a Catholic queer theological framework that aids a synodal project. The conclusion will outline and explore some questions for future research.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233593
Megan Clay
{"title":"Book Review: Queer Ministers: Voices From The Global South: ‘A Burning Fire in My Bones’","authors":"Megan Clay","doi":"10.1177/09667350241233593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09667350241233593","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55945,"journal":{"name":"Feminist Theology","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140623527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233587
Scott MacDougall
Scholars and theologians have often noted the futural and even outright eschatological perspective of significant strands of queer theory and queer theology. In their book After Method, theologian Hanna Reichel also notes this resonance. They do so in the course of analyzing what they take to be a methodological impasse that has stymied theology in several ways and in making a queer theological intervention as an attempt to address it. What they do not do, however, is apply what they call their resulting “method after method,” with its future-oriented outlook, directly to eschatological theology itself. That is what I attempt to do here: to think with Reichel’s suggestive provocations in order to explore the affordances of eschatological imagination in the terms Reichel proposes and to suggest the transformative, real-world epistemic and material difference that a queerly conceived eschatological imagination might make for those who espouse it.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233586
Joseph N. Goh
Although their intimate lives are often adversely affected by homonegative laws and conservative religio-cultural attitudes, many Malaysian gay men formulate affirming materialist-discursive strategies to pursue personal happiness. Some Christian gay men, for instance, challenge conservative ecclesiastical notions of same-sex attraction as iniquitous and generate life-giving spiritualities for themselves that contribute to a sense of inner joy and equanimity. In this article, aided primarily by Sara Ahmed’s provocative ideas on happiness, I analyse the lived experiences of a Malaysian Christian gay man, and theorise the notion of deviant happiness, which I suggest is a pathway to queer spiritual well-being. Then, drawing on the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s exposition of the beatitudes, I theologically propose that his active pursuit of happiness and well-being as a gay man participates in God’s own beatitude.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233572
Alex Claire-Young
This article considers the paradigms and methods of autoethnographic and interview-based insider research with trans and non-binary Christians. I argue that these methods have enabled proclamation, attention, dialogue, justice and revelation. This is intended as a companion to my 2014 monograph ‘transformations’.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09667350241233592
Marilú Rojas Salazar
This article seeks to explore critical notions for developing a queer incarnational theology perspective. It begins by examining the concepts of “freedom” and “clandestinity” and then moves into the post-human question, drawing on ecological feminism and queer/cuir theologies. In the final section, ideas are outlined that contribute to a queer incarnational theology, recovering the prophetic sense of the Gospel. This approach integrates freedom from a queer/cuir perspective into a theological framework that resonates with human diversity and embraces the interconnectedness of all forms of life, challenging oppressive structures, and recognizing the prophetic vitality of the Gospel.
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