Marcella Althaus-Reid

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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. Althaus-Reid is a member of the Methodist Church.

She was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and graduated with a Theology Degree from ISEDET, a school in Buenos Aires dedicated to religious studies. 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

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