Postcolonial Body Performance Narratives (PBPN) – What is it? PBPNs diversely engage postcolonial themes, theories, theologies, and realities from decidedly situated perspectives and irreducibly treat bodies and lived experiences as multidimensional sites from which to theorize postcolonial corporeality. Attention to the body is more than just a flirtation with the idea of the body as a [...]

Review of Peniel Rajkumar, Dalit Theology and Dalit Liberation: Problems, Paradigms and Possibilities (Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010) Reviewer: James Massey, cdss@bol.net.in The origins of Dalit Theology and Dalit Liberation: Problems, Paradigms and Possibilities lie in author Peniel Rajkumar’s “personal discontentment at Dalit theology’s failure to be effective in a practical manner” (p. 183). Here one can see the deep feeling of [...]

Jason Craige Harris “Intellectual work can itself be a gesture of political activism if it challenges us to know in ways that counter and oppose existing epistemologies (ways of knowing) that keep us colonized, subjugated, etc. Intellectual work has that potential only if the individual is committed to a progressive political vision of social change.” – bell [...]

Review of Heidi Safia Mirza and Cynthia Joseph, eds. Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times: Researching Educational Inequalities (London: Routledge, 2010), 142 pp. Reviewer: Elaine Graham, e.graham@chester.ac.uk The essays found within Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times emerged from a seminar held in 2006 to inaugurate the Centre for Rights Equalities and Social Justice [...]

Review of Jione Havea and Clive Pearson, eds. (Equinox, 2011), pp. 296. Reviewer: Jenny Plane Te Paa, jenzat@xtra.co.nz In his deeply impassioned and profoundly eloquent foreword to Out of Place: Doing Theology on the Cross Cultural Brink, Anthony Reddie provides the reader with an irresistible foretaste of the literary banquet that the editors of this book have so lovingly [...]

Review of Joerg Rieger, God and the Excluded: Visions and Blind Spots in Contemporary Theology (Minneapolis, Augsburg Fortress Press, 2001), 256 pp. Reviewer: Joey Convertino joey.convertino@gmail.com In God and the Excluded: Visions and Blind Spots in Contemporary Theology , Joerg Rieger explores the recesses of contemporary theology in order to flesh out the peripheries and points of exclusion, alongside the significant and helpful aspects [...]

Review of Patrick S. Cheng. Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology (New York: Seabury Press, 2011), pp. 162. Susannah Cornwall. Controversies in Queer Theology (London: SCM, 2011), pp. 294. Reviewer: Lisa Isherwood, lisa.isherwood@winchester.ac.uk In Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology Patrick Cheng has created for us all a very valuable resource for teaching. He has put together a comprehensive historical survey [...]

Michelle A. Gonzalez   A few weeks ago I stared at a sleepy class full of undergrads failing to engage in a discussion on the function on gender, power, and race in God language and imagery. Frustrated, I proclaimed loudly, “If God is male, where is God’s penis?” This provoked a series of nervous giggles, shocked [...]