Queer Faith Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition / Melissa E. Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanchez, Melissa E., Author.

Series:

Sexual cultures.

NYU scholarship online.

Sexual cultures

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 337 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md Project MUSE 2021

Place of Publication:

New York New York University Press [2019]

Summary:

Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, 'Queer Faith' reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of ?history and tradition? suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? 'Queer Faith' examines key works of the prehistory of monogamy?from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare?to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberation are themselves attached to nascent racial and economic hierarchies. Because discourses of fidelity and freedom are also discourses on racial and sexual positionality, excavating the complex historical entanglement of faith, race, and eroticism is urgent to contemporary queer debates about normativity, agency, and relationality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A Note on Translations

Introduction

1. The Queerness of Christian Faith

2. The Color of Monogamy

3. The Shame of Conjugal Sex

4. The Optimism of Infidelity

5. On Erotic Accountability

Coda

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-3404-1

OCLC:

1105557884