Professor Lisa Isherwood 

Director of Theological Partnerships 

Institute for Theological Partnerships 

Email:

lisa.isherwood@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

01962 827068 

Address:

Biography

Lisa Isherwood is a liberation theologian who believes theology to be a communal project fuelled by notions of radical equality and empowered by divine companionship. Her work explores the nature of incarnation within a contemporary context and includes such areas as the body, gender, sexuality and eco-theology. She has written, co-authored or edited 17 books such as:

• ‘The Power of Erotic Celibacy’ { T&T Clark, 2006]
• ‘The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in Boundaries and Transgressions’ [DLT, 2007]
• ‘Introducing Feminist Christologies’ [Continuum, 2001]
• Liberating Christ, [Pilgrim Press 1999]
• ‘Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains [ed] [ Equinox, 2007].

Expertise

Lisa has lectured throughout Europe, Canada, Australia and the USA and has held Visiting Professorships in Australia and USA. She has 14 research students working in many areas of liberation theology, body theology and gender and sexuality.

Publications

She has been series editor of five international series:

• ‘Introductions in Feminist Theology’ [Continuum]
• Queer Theology [T&T Clark co-editor Marcella Althaus-Reid]
• Theology, Gender & Spirituality [Equinox]
• c Religion & Violence [Equinox]
• Controversies in Contextual Theology [SCM], co-editor Marcella Althaus -Reid

Professor Isherwood is an Executive Editor and founding editor of the international journal ‘Feminist Theology’ and serves on the editorial board of the ‘Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion’. From 2007-2009 she was Vice President of the European Society of Women in Theological Research and is co-founder [1990] and Director of the Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology. She is on the theological consultancy board for Caritas and is a board member of the Animal Ethics Centre in Oxford.