A curios case of homonymy

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I was browsing the net in search of info about Elizabeth Stuart (not the queen! THIS Elisabeth Stuart was a romance writer, five books and three important awards and then puff! disappears from the face of the world... but I found what happened to her and I will write about her in the future...). 

Many bibliographies (also of important and specific sites), tell that Elizabeth Stuart, author of Where Love Dwells, is the same Elizabeth Stuart, author of Daring to Speak Love’s Name: A Gay and Lesbian Prayer Book... even if I'd love to discover a such interesting news, I have to say that it's not true. They are not the same person. But I was very happy to discover this new Elizabeth Stuart, and so maybe also you'd like to know something more (if you just don't know her... maybe she is famous and I don't know that!) 

Professor Elizabeth Stuart (born Kent) is a UK theologian specialising in Queer Theology. She is Professor of Christian Theology at the University of Winchester and was founding chair of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality. She co-edits the academic journal Theology and Sexuality. 

Professor Stuart was consecrated as a Bishop in the Open Episcopal Church (a small, independent grouping within the United Kingdom). In 2006 she became Archbishop of the Province of Great Britain and Ireland of the Liberal Catholic Church International. 

Her published works include: Gay and Lesbian Theologies: Repetitions and Critical Difference; Just Good Friends: Towards a Lesbian and Gay Theology of Relationships; Daring to Speak Love’s Name; Religion is a Queer Thing. 

These works show Stuart moving from a liberationist approach to an approach grounded in queer theory. She now argues that gender and sexuality are not matters of ultimate theological concerns and that the Christian duty is to refuse to work theologically with such categories. 

In 2008 Stuart received the LGCM Award for 'energetic and prophetic advocacy on behalf of LGBT people, numerous pioneering theological books, and for remaining a loyal member of LGCM'. 

Interesting woman, isn't she? I didn't even know that queer theology was an existing matter!

Comments

[megleigh.livejournal.com]

Thanks for bringing this book and author to my attention. I am very interested in Queer Theology. This is going on my TBB list!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

At least you know that exist Queer Theology! For me is a new thing. Elisa