Marcella Althaus-Reid
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Professor Marcella Althaus-Reid is newly appointed Professor of Contextual Theology at the University of Edinburgh, having been a reader in Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at New College, the Divinity School of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She is the only woman professor of theology at a Scottish University, and the first woman professor of theology at the University of Edinburgh in 160 years.
She was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and graduated with a Theology Degree from the University of Buenos Aires, at a time when women were not expected to study Theology. Her interests include Liberation Theology, Feminist theology and Queer Theology.
Her published works include:
- Indecent Theology. Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics
- The Queer God
- From Feminist Theology to Indecent Theology
- Queer Theology. A Primer (co-edited with Prof L. Isherwood)
- From Liberation Theology to Indecent Theology – the Trouble with Normality in Theology from Petrella, Ivan (editor) Latin American Liberation Theology – The Next Generation Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2005
