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Queer Theologies
Author(s) -
Schneider Laurel C.,
Roncolato Carolyn
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
religion compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1749-8171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00315.x
Subject(s) - queer , essentialism , gender studies , terminology , context (archaeology) , identity (music) , face (sociological concept) , sociology , liberation theology , queer theory , theology , psychoanalysis , psychology , aesthetics , philosophy , social science , history , linguistics , archaeology
This article traces the development of queer theology from its roots in liberation theology and poststructuralist gender theory. Starting with the challenges of terminology in the face of a rapidly changing social context, the authors outline the recent, interrelated histories of LGBT liberation theologies that focus on historically oppressed identity groups and of queer theologies that attempt to think theologically beyond essentialist categories of identity. Finally, they speculate on emergent challenges to queer and LGBT liberationist studies in religion.