Globalisation and Sexuality is an ongoing theological project. All the theological reflections we are doing at the moment are done from a context of globalisation. In a way, there is no possibility to do theology outside globalisation parameters anymore. There is no neutrality in theology in relation to globalisation: either you approve it by accepting it or by indifference, or you resist by denouncing and working for alternatives. Globalisation processes affect theology in several ways:

•   They present us with a new theological subject. The option for the poor has become 'the option for the excluded.' To be poor and exploited has become a privilege for many.
•   They challenge us with the need for radical challenges. Re-formation may no longer be a possibility. We need to think God differently, and how God is manifested at the margins of the excluded: the Cartoneros of Buenos Aires; the children of the street from Brazil; the transvestites organising themselves in communities of economic and affective survival and resistance... That is the new face of a grounded theology.
• They challenge the way we do theology. Theology is at risk of becoming a category of the market with its emphasis  on production and not on praxis. The truth is that theological praxis is not meant to be spectacular, but successful.

Indecent Theology searches for the sexual foundation of theology, and the links between excluded ways of knowing or 'love/knowing', political ideologies and theology. To put it in other words, how alternatives to the destructiveness of Global processes of Capitalist expansion can be resisted sexually. That is, by using excluded forms of sexuality, love and relationships. The problem is that heterisexuality as an ideology is not onlycompulsive, but it also assumes a cultural homogeinity which in relaity does not exist. Asdifferent cultures present us different constructions of hetrosexuality and other sexual options, economic alternatives and challenges to theology occurs.

In The Queer God some of the different forms of heterosexual and economic sexual understandings are discussed theologically in the context of the bisexual religious ethos of towns in Latin America and the economic traditions of el cariño (tenderness) but also in Queer spiritualities conflicting with the pervading globalisation theology. That, is, people's Queer call to holiness versus the spirituality of the Logos.
 

As a director of the MTh in Theology and the Global Economy in the University of Edinburgh, I see the importance of having an international forum for discussions combining all the ideological suspicions of gender, sexuality, race and politics in order to ask the right questions and to envision the right alternatives.