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Queer Theology
Rethinking the Western Body
Coordinator: Loughlin Gerard
Language: EnglishSubject for Queer Theology:
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Publication date: 11-2007
368 p. · 17.3x24.7 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 11-2007
368 p. · 17.7x25.4 cm · Hardback
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- A remarkable collection of specially commissioned essays by some of the brightest and best of Anglo-American scholars
- Edited by one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture
- Reconceptualizes the body and its desires
- Enlarges the meaningfulness of Christian sexuality for the good of the Church
- Proposes that bodies are the mobile products of changing discourses and regimes of power.
Preface.
Introduction: The End of Sex: Gerard Loughlin (University of Durham).
Part I: Queer Lives.
1 Subjectivity and Belief: Kathy Rudy (Duke University).
2 The Gay Thing: Following the Still Small Voice: James Alison (writer).
Part II: Queer Church.
3 Sacramental Flesh: Elizabeth Stuart (University of Winchester).
4 There Is No Sexual Difference: Graham Ward (University of Manchester).
5 Fecundity: Sex and Social Reproduction: David Matzko McCarthy (Mount St Mary’s University).
Part III: Queer Origins.
6 Eros and Emergence: Catherine Pickstock (Cambridge University).
7 Omphalos: Gerard Loughlin (University of Durham).
Part IV: Queer/ing Tradition.
8 Against Rabbinic Sexuality: Textual Reasoning and the Jewish Theology of Sex: Daniel Boyarin (University of California at Berkeley).
9 Queer Father: Gregory of Nyssa and the Subversion of Identity: Virginia Burrus (Drew University).
10 Queering the Beguines: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch of Anvers, Marguerite Porete: Amy Hollywood (Harvard Divinity School).
11 Bodies Demand Language: Thomas Aquinas: Eugene F. Rogers Jr (University of North Carolina at Greensboro).
12 Love’s Urgent Longings: St John of the Cross: Christopher Hinkle (doctoral student at Harvard Divinity School).
13 A Queer Theology: Hans Urs von Balthasar: Rachel Muers (University of Exeter).
Part V: Queer/ing Modernity.
14 Reformed and Enlightened Church: Jane Shaw (New College, Oxford).
15 Sex and Secularization: Linda Woodhead (Lancaster University).
16 “Promising Ashes”: A Queer Language of Life: Grace M. Jantzen (University of Manchester).
17 Antimarriage: Paul Fletcher (Lancaster University).
Part VI: Queer Orthodoxy.
18 Queer Trinity: Gavin D’Costa (University of Bristol).
19 God’s Body: Mark D. Jordan (Emory University).
20 Queen of Heaven: Tina Beattie (University of Surrey Roehampton).
21 Desirous Saints: David Matzko McCarthy (Mount St Mary’s University).
Bibliography.
Index of Biblical References.
General Index
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