Queer Christianities : lived religion in transgressive forms / edited by Kathleen T. Talvacchia, Michael F. Pettinger, and Mark Larrimore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Talvacchia, Kathleen T., editor.

Pettinger, Michael F., editor.

Larrimore, Mark J. (Mark Joseph), 1966- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Homosexuality.

Church work with gay people.

Queer theology.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Queerness and Christianity, often depicted as mutually exclusive, both challenge received notions of the good and the natural. Nowhere is this challenge more visible than in the identities, faiths, and communities that queer Christians have long been creating. As Christians they have staked a claim for a Christianity that is true to their self-understandings. How do queer-identified persons understand their religious lives? And in what ways do the lived experiences of queer Christians respond to traditions and reshape them in contemporary practice? Queer Christianities integrates the perspectives of queer theory, religious studies, and Christian theology into a lively conversation—both transgressive and traditional—about the fundamental questions surrounding the lives of queer Christians. The volume contributes to the emerging scholarly discussion on queer religious experiences as lived both within communities of Christian confession, as well as outside of these established communities.Organized around traditional Christian states of life—celibacy, matrimony, and what is here provocatively conceptualized as promiscuity—this work reflects the ways in which queer Christians continually reconstruct and multiply the forms these states of life take. Queer Christianities challenges received ideas about sexuality and religion, yet remains true to Christian self-understandings that are open to further enquiry and to further queerness.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Celibacy was queer: rethinking early Christianity

2. “Queerish” celibacy: reorienting marriage in the ex-gay movement

3. Celibate politics: queering the limits

4. How queer is celibacy?: a queer nun’s story

Church interlude I. A congregation embodies queer theology

5. Two medieval brides of Christ: complicating monogamous marriage

6. Gay rites and religious rights: new york’s first same-sex marriage controversy

7. Beyond procreativity: heterosexuals queering marriage

8. Disrupting the normal: queer family life as sacred work

Church interlude II. Healing oppression sickness

9. Double love: rediscovering the queerness of sin and grace

10. Love your friends: learning from the ethics of relationships

11. Calvary and the dungeon: theologizing bdsm

12. Who do you say that i am?: transforming promiscuity and privilege

13. Three versions of human sexuality

14. Disrupting the theory-practice binary

15. Everything queer?

Consolidated bibliography

About the contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781479819126

1479819123

9781479851812

1479851817

OCLC:

894554100