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.
The Faithfulness of Self-Realisation: No Longer an Object
1st Edition
By Jaimee van Gemerden
April 28, 2026
This book focuses on self-realisation as a faithful way to pursue relationship with God. It considers the issue of objectification faced by women within Christian religion and makes a theological case for the pursuit of selfhood, as understood in an existentialist ontology, which is not selfish or ...
Tending to Stories in Feminist Theologies: Interdisciplinary Renderings of Faith, Hope and Love
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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"
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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...
Unlocking Orthodoxies for Inclusive Theologies: Queer Alternatives
1st Edition
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By Robert E. Shore-Goss, Joseph N. Goh
June 30, 2021
This book enters a new liminal space between the LGBTQ and denominational Christian communities. It simultaneously explores how those who identify as queer can find a home in church and how those leading welcoming, or indeed unwelcoming, congregations can better serve both communities. The primary ...
Religion, Feminism, and Idoloclasm: Being and Becoming in the Women's Liberation Movement
1st Edition
By Melissa Raphael
March 31, 2021
Religion, Feminism, and Idoloclasm identifies religious and secular feminism’s common critical moment as that of idol-breaking. It reads the women’s liberation movement as founded upon a philosophically and emotionally risky attempt to liberate women’s consciousness from a three-fold cognitive ...
The Spirituality of Anorexia: A Goddess Feminist Thealogy
1st Edition
By Emma White
August 14, 2020
Widely popularized images of unobtainable and damaging feminine ideals can be a cause of profound disjunction between women and their bodies. A consequence of this dissonance is an embodied performance of these ideals with the potential development of disordered eating practices, such as anorexia ...
Christian Goddess Spirituality: Enchanting Christianity
1st Edition
By Mary Ann Beavis
June 30, 2020
This monograph focuses on "Christian Goddess Spirituality" (CGS), the phenomenon of (mostly) women who combine Christianity and Goddess Spirituality, including Wicca/Witchcraft. Mary Ann Beavis’s study provides ethnographic data and analysis on the lived religious experience of CGS practitioners, ...