The pluralist principle, embodiment and sexuality

The research identifies conceptual bases that critically introduce in Latin American theology the value of anthropological dimensions that are around embodiment, sexuality and pleasure, generally disregarded by the hegemonic theological readings. Methodologically, the interaction of the pluralistic principle with Latin American feminist and queer theological production, especially those of Ivone Gebara, Marcella Althaus-Reid and Andre Musskopf, and the theopoetics of Rubem Alves, was established. Among the results presented is the fact that theological reflection on embodiment, sexuality and pleasure has its history in the contribution of feminist and queer theologies, especially those formulated in the Latin American context. The debate shows that definitions about the body and sexual practices, explicit or not, whether experienced in contexts of pleasure, authenticity, affection and festivity, or in sublimated, repressive and violent forms, are constitutive and definitive bases of reality and reveal themselves at the borders and in between spaces of cultures. Hence their importance for theological reflection within the pluralistic principle.