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Queer theology : rethinking the western body / edited by Gerard Loughlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sex.
- Queer theory.
- Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Human body.
- Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Homosexuality.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
- Summary:
- Queer Theology makes an important contribution to public debate about Christianity and sex. This remarkable collection reconceptualizes the body and its desires, enlarging the meaningfulness of Christian sexuality for the good of the Church. By divinizing desire, it radicalizes ?queer theory? and its deconstruction of sexual and gender identities; and it invokes a complex social space in which transcendent Eros frees us from the fear of our differences. Written by some of the brightest and best of Anglo-American scholars, established and up-coming, from a variety of academic and religious backgrounds, the book shows us how western bodies and their desires are queerer than often thought. Our bodies are, the contributors propose, the mobile products of ever changing discourses and regimes of power; and God, they help us to understand, is indeed a bodily god.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the end of sex / Gerard Loughlin
- Queer lives
- Subjectivity and belief / Kathy Rudy
- The gay thing : following the still small voice / James Alison
- Queer church
- Sacramental flesh / Elizabeth Stuart
- There is no sexual difference / Graham Ward
- Fecundity : sex and social reproduction / David Matzko McCarthy
- Queer origins
- Eros and emergence / Catherine Pickstock
- Omphalos / Gerard Loughlin
- Queer/ing tradition
- Against rabbinic sexuality : textual reasoning and the Jewish theology of sex / Daniel Boyarin
- Queer father : Gregory of Nyssa and the subversion of identity / Virginia Burrus
- Queering the beguines : Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch of Aavers, Marguerite Porete / Amy Hollywood
- Bodies demand language : Thomas Aquinas / Eugene F. Rogers, Jr.
- Loves urgent longings : St. John of the Cross / Christopher Hinkle
- A queer theology : Hans Urs von Balthasar / Rachel Muers
- Queer/ing modernity
- Reformed and enlightened church / Jane Shaw
- Sex and secularization / Linda Woodhead
- "Promising ashes" : a queer language of life / Grace M. Jantzen
- Anti-marriage / Paul Fletcher
- Queer orthodoxy
- Queer trinity / Gavin D'Costa
- God's body / Mark D. Jordan
- Queen of heaven / Tina Beattie
- Desirous saints / David Matzko McCarthy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-337) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0631216073
- 0631216081
- 9780631216070
- 9780631216087
- OCLC:
- 71004105
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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