Gender, Theology and Spirituality
About the Book Series
The series explores the gendered nature and practice of theology and spirituality and aims to extend the boundaries of theology through materialist and radical analysis.
Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies: Interdisciplinary Renderings of Faith, Hope and Love
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By Helena Kadmos, Katharine Massam
September 16, 2025
Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies is interested in the place of story-tellers in communities of hope. Where some theologies wrestle for clarity of definition, feminist and other theologies of liberation begin from experience and tend towards story as a vehicle for speaking of the Divine. ...
Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion
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By Kent L. Brintnall, Rhiannon Graybill, Linn Marie Tonstad
May 06, 2025
This book takes the groundbreaking work of Lee Edelman in queer theory and, for the first time, demonstrates its importance and relevance to contemporary theology, biblical studies, and religious studies. It argues that despite extensive interest in Edelman’s work, we have barely begun to ...
Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell
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By Bernard S. Schlager
March 18, 2025
Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship builds upon the work and legacy of Professor John Boswell, bringing together contributions that were delivered at the annual CLGS Boswell Lecture Series at Pacific School of Religion, USA. Boswell is lauded as a major scholar in gender and ...
Queer Ministers’ Voices from the Global South: "A Burning Fire in My Bones"
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By Lisa Isherwood, Hugo Córdova Quero
January 30, 2025
This book brings together the narratives of diverse ministers from the Global South in order to show that queer theologies are impacting many parts of the world and queer lives are molding and enriching Christian ministry. Across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, we are witnessing the emergence of ...
New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy: Polyamory, Polygamy, and Reality Television
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By Michelle Mueller
May 31, 2023
New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy examines the relationship between alternative American religions and the media representation of non-monogamies on reality-TV shows like Sister Wives, Seeking Sister Wife, and Polyamory: Married & Dating. The book is the first full-length study ...
Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love
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By Kerrie Handasyde, Cathryn McKinney, Rebekah Pryor
September 26, 2022
This book explores the issues of power, authority and love with current concerns in the Christian theological exploration of feminism and feminist theology. It addresses its key themes in three parts: (1) power deals with feminist critiques, (2) authority unpacks feminist methodologies, and (3) ...
The Indecent Theologies of Marcella Althaus-Reid: Voices from Asia and Latin America
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By Lisa Isherwood, Hugo Córdova Quero
August 01, 2022
This book celebrates the legacy of theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952‑2009), and her particular influence in Asia and South America. Her work has served as a significant source of inspiration to many scholars, ministers, and activists challenging heteronormative theologies, but her sudden death...
Catholics, Conflicts and Choices: An Exploration of Power Relations in the Catholic Church
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By Angela Coco
September 18, 2018
Many Catholics today are disenchanted with the Church's continuing distrust of women and laity. But, despite this widespread dissatisfaction, traditional power relations have hardly changed over the last century. "Catholics, Conflicts and Choices" presents detailed interviews with lay people, ...
Public Theology and the Challenge of Feminism
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By Stephen Burns, Anita Monro
February 12, 2018
Public Theology is a rapidly growing international field of study which focuses on how Christian belief and practice engage with wider social issues. Yet, whilst the ultimate concern of public theology is the well-being of society, this body of theology has largely developed without integrating the...
Searching for the Holy Spirit: Feminist Theology and Traditional Doctrine
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By Anne Claar Thomasson-Rosingh
February 12, 2018
Is the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in Christian theology good news or bad news for women? Is the Holy Spirit in traditional Christian doctrine the guardian of the status quo or does it offer the dynamic possibility for change? How do the gifts of the Spirit, ecstatic and relational, inform feminist...
God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude
1st Edition
By Linn Marie Tonstad
June 30, 2017
God and Difference interlaces Christian theology with queer and feminist theory for both critical and constructive ends. Linn Marie Tonstad uses queer theory to show certain failures of Christian thinking about God, gender, and sexuality. She employs queer theory to dissect trinitarian discourse ...
Being the Body of Christ: Towards a Twenty-First Century Homosexual Theology for the Anglican Church
1st Edition
By Chris Mounsey
June 28, 2017
The book explores the preoccupation of key twentieth-century English writers with theology and sexuality and how the Anglican Church has responded and continues to respond to the issue of homosexuality. Analysing the work of Oscar Wilde, E. F. Benson, Edward Carpenter, Jeanette Winterson, and Alan ...