Marcella Althaus-Reid
Marcella María Althaus-Reid (born May 11, 1952 in Rosario , Argentina , as Marcella María Althaus ; † February 20, 2009 in Edinburgh , Scotland ) was an Argentine - British theologian and author.
Life
Althaus-Reid passed her first theological exam at ISEDET, the Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos , an ecumenical theological educational institution in Buenos Aires that focuses on liberation theology.
She came to Scotland to do Paulo Freire-style community work in a poor neighborhood in Dundee . She received her PhD from the University of St Andrews with a dissertation on the influence of Paul Ricœur on the methodology of liberation theology.
Althaus-Reid was the only female professor of theology at a Scottish university in her day and the first at Edinburgh University . Althaus-Reid's work focused on: liberation theology, feminist theology and queer theology . Althaus-Reid was co-editor of the journal Studies in World Christianity: The Edinburgh Review of Theology and Religion and regular author of the international theological journal Concilium .
Marcella Althaus-Reid died on February 20, 2009 of longstanding cancer at the Marie Curie Hospice in Edinburgh.
Fonts (selection)
- Indecent Theology. Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics . Routledge, London 2000.
- The Queer God . Routledge, London 2003.
- From Feminist Theology to Indecent Theology . SCM, London 2004.
- Queer Theology. A Primer (co-edited by Lisa Isherwood ).
- From Liberation Theology to Indecent Theology - the Trouble with Normality in Theology . In: Ivan Petrella (Ed.): Latin American Liberation Theology - The Next Generation Orbis Books, New York 2005.
literature
- Katharine E. Lassiter: Recognizing Other Subjects. Feminist Pastoral Theology and the Challenge of Identity . Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2015, ISBN 9781498230377 , p. 122 ff.
Web links
- Biography on the website of the University of Edinburgh, School of Divinity ( Memento of February 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Althaus-Reid, Marcella |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Old house, Marcella María |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosario (Santa Fe) , Argentina |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 2009 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh , Scotland |