Marcella Althaus-Reid

Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952 – 20 February 2009) was Professor of contextual theology at New College, University of Edinburgh. When appointed, she was the only woman professor of theology at a Scottish University, and the first woman professor of theology at New College in its 160 year history . She was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and graduated with a Bachelor in Theology Degree from ISEDET, the Protestant University Institute in Buenos Aires . She completed her Ph.D at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her interests included Liberation Theology, Feminist theology and Queer Theology.

Prof Althaus-Reid died on Friday 20 February 2009, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Works

Her published works include:

• Indecent Theology. Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics
• The Queer God
• From Feminist Theology to Indecent Theology
• Queer Theology. A Primer (co-edited with Prof L. Isherwood)
• From Liberation Theology to Indecent Theology – the Trouble with Normality in Theology from Petrella, Ivan (editor) Latin American Liberation Theology – The Next Generation Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2005

External links

• Official website from Althaus-Reid
• Edinburgh University staff listing for Dr Althaus-Reid
• Works by or about Marcella Althaus-Reid in libraries (WorldCat catalog)