The workshop on liberating contextual theologies has been organized at regular intervals since 2008. It aims to offer a forum for dialogue for different theological perspectives with social and/or political focus especially from Latin America and Europe. The 9th workshop in this series will be held in June 2025 on the topic of corporeality.

Physical corporeality is still, and increasingly so, a major challenge for contemporary theology and it remains at the centre of political debates globally. We can see this, on the one hand, in the global rise of right-wing populist movements and, on the other, in the largely unbroken continuity of dogmatic-repressive positions on sexuality and gender relations in religious communities and in Christian churches.

The aim of this workshop is to reflect on different topics concerning corporeality and to bring different approaches into dialogue. One of the questions that will be explored is what kind of conceptual or theoretical contributions theology can make, for example with regard to the common struggle against anti-genderism/anti-feminism and in favour of self-determination over body and territory. From a theological perspective, we have to deal not only with the question of incarnation or how to overcome anthropological dualisms, but also with the idealisation of the body and the overall question which bodies and life forms should exist. These questions are not only theologically relevant, but they concern also the foundations of social structures and norms.

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