When he died in 2009, a day of mourning for the Rosario theologian
Marcella Althaus-Reid
, who had revolutionized studies on
religion with an integrating, plural and
queer
perspective
.
However, in Argentina, her country, there were few (very few) who knew about her.
Marcella Althaus-Reid died in the UK in 2009.
Within the framework of the fourth edition of the feminist cycle We Move the World and days before the
International Day of Working Women , the book
Indecent Theology
was presented on Saturday at the Kirchner Cultural Center .
Theological perversion in sex, gender and politics
(Paidós), a major work by Althaus-Reid, in which he gives an account of a rereading of the history of Christianity from paradigms as distant as feminism,
liberation theology, sexuality and queer theory.
Until February of this year, the only way to read this Argentine thinker, the first woman professor of theology at New College (Scotland) in its 160-year history, was in the old photocopies that were reproduced among initiates or some scanned
versions
( underlined and worn).
Loose who seek God
"This book is dedicated to all my friends and loves and to all those who walk like me in life,
'loose and unvaccinated', seeking God
in the midst of love affairs, love affairs and so much loneliness."
With this dedication, in Spanish in the original,
The Queer God
, her second book, she resumed and deepened the
conceptual lines
that run through her thought and that gave her a worldwide presence in theological and feminist debates.
Marcella Althaus-Reid.
Marcella Althaus-Reid studied at the Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos and missioned in marginal neighborhoods of the city of Buenos Aires before going into exile.
Her career went foreign
: she received her PhD in 1994 from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland;
she was appointed to a chair in Edinburgh as Director of the MA in Theology and Development;
and she was Associate Editor of
Studies in World Christianity: the Edinburgh Review of Theology and Religion
and a member of the Editorial Board of
Concilium
.
Last Saturday at the CCK, she was remembered with a reading of her texts by the
actress Moria Casán
.
Accustomed to stunning presentations in front of the public, the sharp interpreter made bold jokes, but, on several occasions, she had to overcome
the emotion
that the reading of that other, indecent and free woman produced in her.
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The (many) audiences of the LIJ
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Mariana Enriquez and that known terror
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Simple ideas and fanaticism