IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 439: Indecent Theologies, IV: A Round Table Discussion
Monday 4 July 2022, 19.00-20.00
| Sponsor: | Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organisers: | David Carrillo-Rangel, Institut de Recerca de Cultures Medievals (IRCVM), Universitat de Barcelona Sophie Conaghan-Sexon, School of Critical Studies (English Language), University of Glasgow |
| Moderator/Chair: | Laura Cayrol Bernardo, Universidad de Oviedo |
| Abstract | 'Indecent theology', as coined by Marcella Althaus-Reid (2000), is a theological perspective which radically perverts accepted doctrines in sex, gender, and politics and re-establishes their borders. In this session, we aim to bring theology out of the closet, centring indecency in religious perspectives. In this round table discussion we will discuss concepts such as indecent scholarship, to explore other ways of doing research, how the concept of global imposes western chronologies on other cultures, the queerness of religion in medieval romance, and perversions in theology and literature. 'Pervert' is used here in its original Latin meaning to overthrow, ['to turn, turn back, be turned; convert, transform, translate; be changed'] and therefore to encounter hidden meanings in the margins as history. Participants include Daisy Black (University of Wolverhampton), David Carrillo-Rangel (Universitetet i Bergen), C. Libby (Pennsylvania State University), and Amy Louise Morgan (University of Surrey). |