Laurel C. Schneider joined the faculty of Boston University School of Theology in 2024. Trained as a constructive theologian at Harvard (MA, MDiv) and at Vanderbilt (PhD) she focused her research, writing, and teaching (Colby College, North Central College, Chicago Theological Seminary, and Vanderbilt University) on Christian queer, feminist, postcolonial and liberation possibilities. A long interest in Indigenous traditions of eastern North America that started in undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College and carried through her career has influenced her work and teaching in theology and philosophy. Theological imagination is grounded in deep cultural assumptions that frame epistemologies, practices, ontologies, and religious hopes. Constructive theology attunes itself to these assumptions, with an eye toward liberation.<\/p>\n
Schneider is President-Elect of the American Academy of Religion and member of the Executive Committee of the AAR Board of Directors. In addition to her published books, she has numerous articles and anthology chapters relating to concepts of multiplicity, divinity, sexuality, race, and postcolonial theory and is currently at work on poetics and imagining beyond dystopia\/s. Apart from her scholarly work in theology and philosophy, she also serves on the local and district school boards in her home town of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
Queer Soul, Queer Theology: Ethics and Redemption in Real Life<\/em>, with Thelathia Nikki Young. London: Routledge 2021.<\/p>\n Beyond Monotheism: A Theology of Multiplicity. <\/em>London: Routledge, 2007.<\/p>\n Re-Imagining the Divine: Confronting the Backlash Against Feminist Theology<\/em>. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1999.<\/p>\n Editor with Catherine Keller, Polydoxy: Theology of Multiplicity and Relation,<\/em> London: Routledge, 2010.<\/p>\n Editor, with Stephen G. Ray, Awake to the Moment: Introducing Constructive Theology<\/em>, The Workgroup in Constructive Theology. Louisville: Westminster\/John Knox Press, 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cDivine Promiscuity\u201d in Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ: Materiality-Incarnation-Ecology\u201d<\/em> ed. by Aurica Jax and Saskia Wendel. Oxford: Routledge, 2019.<\/p>\n \u201cNothing In This World Is Indifferent To Us: A Dialogical Reflection on the Queerness of Theology and Science\u201d with Catherine Keller, in Unsettling Science and Religion: Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies\u201d<\/em> edited by Whitney Bauman and Lisa Stenmark. NY: Lexington, 2017.<\/p>\n \u201cMore Than A Feeling: A Queer Notion of Survivance<\/em>\u201d in Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies,<\/em> edited by Kent Brintnall and Joseph Marchal. NY: Fordham University Press, 2017.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Gravity of Love: Theopoetics and Ontological Imagination\u201d in Theopoetic Folds: Philosophizing Multifariousness,<\/em> ed. by Roland Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal. Fordham University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen The World Is Alive, Spirit Is Not Dismembered: Reflections on Native North American (Eastern Woodland) Philosophy\u201d in Sensational Religion: Sense and Contention in Material Practice,<\/em> Sally Promey, ed. Yale University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat Race Is Your Sex?\u201d in Queer Religion: LGBT Movements and Queering Religion, Volume II<\/em>, ed. by Donald L. Boisvert and Jay Emerson Johnson (Santa Barbara, CA), 2012.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Love We Cannot Not Want\u201d in Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology<\/em>, ed. by Stephen Moore and Mayra Rivera. New York: Fordham University, 2010.<\/p>\n \u201cPromiscuous Incarnation\u201d in The Embrace of Eros: Bodies, Desires, and Sexuality in Christianity,<\/em> ed. by Margaret Kamitsuka (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010.<\/p>\n \u201cHomosexuality, Queer Theory and Christian Theology\u201d in Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism: A Critical Reader,<\/em> ed. by Bj\u00f6rn Krondorfer. SCM-Canterbury, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[23],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57543,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56976\/revisions\/57543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=56976"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=56976"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=56976"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=56976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}