Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies

Published by Fordham University Press 2017

Sexual Disorientations

Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies

Edited by: Kent L. Brintnall , Joseph A. Marchal and Stephen D. Moore
With contributions by: Joseph A. Marchal , James Hoke , Eric Thomas , Jacqueline Hidalgo , Kent L. Brintnall , Brock Perry , Brandy Daniels , Karen Bray , Linn Marie Tonstad , Ann Pellegrini , Laurel Schneider , Karmen MacKendrick , Mary-Jane Rubenstein , Mark D. Jordan and Catherine Keller
Afterword by: Elizabeth Freeman

In the series Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823277544

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About this book

Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory, and futurity. Apocalyptic, eschatological and apophatic languages, frameworks, and orientations pervade both queer theorizing and theologizing about time, affect, history and desire. The volume fosters a more explicit engagement between theories of queer temporality and affectivity and religious texts and discourses.

Author / Editor information

Brintnall Kent L. :

Kent L. Brintnall is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.Marchal Joseph A. :

Joseph A. Marchal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University.Moore Stephen D. :

Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies at the Theological School, Drew University.Freeman Elizabeth :

Elizabeth Freeman is Professor of English at University of California, Davis.Marchal Joseph A. :

Joseph A. Marchal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University.Brintnall Kent L. :

Kent L. Brintnall is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.Bray Karen :

Karen Bray is Assistant Professor and Chair of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Wesleyan College. She is co-editor (with Stephen D. Moore) of Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies, also published by Fordham University Press.Tonstad Linn Marie :

Linn Marie Tonstad is an associate professor of systematic theology at Yale Divinity School. Her interests include theology, queer and feminist theory, and theory and method in religious studies. She is the author of two books, God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude (Routledge, 2016) and Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics (Cascade, 2018).Schneider Laurel :

Professor of Religious Studies, Religion and Culture, Vanderbilt University.MacKendrick Karmen :

Karmen MacKendrick is a professor of philosophy and an associate chair of the McDevitt Center for Creativity and Innovation at Le Moyne College. Her work in philosophical theology is entangled with several other disciplines, particularly those involved with words, with flesh, or with the pleasures to be taken in both. These preoccupations appear in several books, most recently Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions (Fordham University Press, 2013).Rubenstein Mary-Jane :

Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University, where she is also core faculty in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty in the Science in Society Program.Jordan Mark D. :

Mark D. Jordan is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including, most recently, Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault and Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality.Keller Catherine :

Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University. Recent books include Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process; Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming; and Ecospirit: Theologies and Philosophies of the Earth (Fordham).Elizabeth Freeman (Afterword By)
Elizabeth Freeman is Professor of English at University of California, Davis.

Kent L. Brintnall (Edited By)
Kent L. Brintnall is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Joseph A. Marchal (Edited By)
Joseph A. Marchal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University.

Stephen D. Moore (Edited By)
Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies at the Theological School, Drew University.

Reviews

This volume brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory, and futurity... [it] fosters an explicit engagement between theories of queer temporality and affectivity and religious texts and discourses.

—Erin Runions:
This volume compellingly queers what we thought we knew about sexuality and temporality in Christian texts, interpretations, and theologies. Beginning with the question of historiography in the study of ancient texts, it moves through into the queer time of ethics and theology. Bodies, texts, and time race forward, touch, pause, and tarry; they fall into catastrophe, witness, cry out, and are haunted by pain and hope; yet still they rehome readers, or afford queer pleasure. Sexual Disorientations enlivens our reading of these religious texts by compellingly queering their temporalities and affects.

...takes queer biblical studies and queer theology to new places, raising the bar on queer theoretical engagement in so doing. Individual chapters make useful coursework reading for students, while the book as a whole is an excellent resource for those particularly interested in what queer theorists are saying about temporality and affects.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction. Queer Disorientations: Four Turns and a Twist Stephen D. Moore, Kent L. Brintnall and Joseph A. Marchal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
How Soon Is (This Apocalypse) Now? Queer Velocities after a Corinthian Already and a Pauline Not Yet Joseph A. Marchal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Unbinding Imperial Time: Chrononormativity and Paul’s Letter to the Romans James N. Hoke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
The Futures Outside: Apocalyptic Epilogue Unveiled as Africana Queer Prologue Eric A. Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
“Our Book of Revelation . . . Prescribes Our Fate and Releases Us from It”: Scriptural Disorientations in Cherríe Moraga’s The Last Generation Jacqueline M. Hidalgo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Queer Persistence: On Death, History, and Longing for Endings Maia Kotrosits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Who Weeps for the Sodomite? Kent L. Brintnall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
“They Had No Rest from This Torment”: Encountering the Apocalypse of Peter Brock Perry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Excess and the Enactment of Queer Time: Futurity, Failure, and Formation in Feminist Theologies Brandy Daniels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
The Madness of Holy Saturday: Bipolar Temporality and the Queerdom of Heaven on Earth Karen Bray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
The Entrepreneur and the Big Drag: Risky Affirmation in Capital’s Time Linn Marie Tonstad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Queer Structures of Religious Feeling: What Time Is Now? Ann Pellegrini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
More Than a Feeling: A Queer Notion of Survivance Laurel C. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Remember—When? Karmen MacKendrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Response: Queer Enfleshment Mary-Jane Rubenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	292
In Search of Queer Theology Lost Mark D. Jordan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
Response: To Mark Jordan’s “In Search of Queer Theology Lost” Catherine Keller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Afterword Elizabeth Freeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
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INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Pages
- Main content: 368
Keywords: Carolyn Dinshaw; Elizabeth Freeman; Jose Esteban Munoz; Lee Edelman; Queer Biblical Studies; Queer Temporality; Queer Theology; Queer theory

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Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9780823277544