Fortress Press

“Given the unprecedented religiopolitical realities of the early 21st century, this book needs to be at the top of every pastor’s ‘must read’ list. In ways both academic and acutely personal, Susan Shaw and Grace Ji-Sun Kim invite us to the brave work of listening across lines of gender, race, class, nation, sexual identity, ability, age, and other forms of social difference in which we discover not only more of God and our neighbors, but also the still untransformed parts of ourselves.”

Intersectional Theology is a pioneering exploration of the usefulness of intersectionality for analyzing in new and compelling ways the field of theology and disrupting its Eurocentric and phallocentric logics. This interdisciplinary project draws on the scholarship of important feminist and womanist scholars from diverse cultural locations and traditions. While its primary audience might be theologians, the book is an important contribution to the field of women's and gender studies and brilliantly underscores the value of intersectional methods in all disciplines, despite its detractors.

“Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw offer a remarkable resource to the churches. The authors lift up the concept of intersectionality as a theological prism through which our lives, collectively and individually, can be more honestly assessed and appreciated. The book is an open window into new depths and breadths of what is involved in thinking truthfully about God and ourselves as radically relational beings who can find ourselves, and one another, only at the intersections of our many, varied, and evolving identities. Intersectional Theology is a brief, readable introduction to Christian theology at its most truthful best.”

An insightful contribution to feminist studies in religion and theology, Kim and Shaw address the complexities of social difference and their influence on theological method and practice by articulating an intersectional theology committed to constructive transformation of society, church, and theology.

“Kim and Shaw invite us to adopt a theology that embraces differences, disruptions, and the margins by listening beyond our comfort zone and into deeper layers of our faith so that we leave no one out. A gracious invitation that we would do well to take up in troubling times such as these. This book gives us the guide to do so.”

“Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw offer a crisp, concise, and well-researched introduction to Christian intersectional theology that will take its place as a standard text for this new and increasingly important approach not just to Christian theology but to Christian practice in the world. Intersectional Theology ​is a primer on theological method that will help to solidify the increasingly nonnegotiable claims, at least in progressive circles, that theology begins in human experience, that human experience involves navigating one’s multiple social identities within lived contexts of simultaneous oppression and power, and that the goal of Christian theology and practice should be justice and liberation for all, with no one left out. Highly recommended, perhaps especially as a first book for those unfamiliar with intersectional theology, and as a textbook.”

"More than being the primer on intersectionality for theologians, this book will transform the way we think about theological method, biblical studies, ecclesiology, practical theology, and all forms of liberation theology. A must read for students and seasoned theologians committed to theologies that transform the world."