Queer and Indecent

Thia Cooper is Professor of Religion at Gustavus Adolphus College, USA including Controversies in Political Theology: Development or Liberation? (2007) and A Theology of International Development (2020) . She has lectured widely in both the USA and Europe. Professor Cooper undertook her Master of Theology at Edinburgh’s New College in 1999 and completed her PhD in 2005, both under Marcella Althaus-Reid.

• Acknowledgements ixIntroduction 11 Biography 72 The Theological Marketplace: Activism,Teaching, Scholarship 113 The Hermeneutical Circle 224 Critiques of Latin American Liberation Theologyand Feminist Theology 355 Post-colonialism and Indigeneity 486 Capitalism and the Excluded 607 Women and Woman-God 738 The Whole Body 869 Indecency/Decency 9910 Heterosexuality 11011 Queering 12312 A Marginal God 13513 Crucifixions/Resurrections 144Conclusion 154Bibliography 156Index of Names and Subjects 161

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