Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies

by Kent L. Brintnall (Editor), Joseph A. Marchal (Editor), Stephen D. Moore (Editor), Elizabeth Freeman (Afterword), Joseph A. Marchal (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823277520
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	11/07/2017
Series:	Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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

Joseph A. Marchal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University.

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

Elizabeth Freeman is Professor of English at University of California, Davis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Queer Disorientations: Four Turns and a Twist
Stephen D. Moore, Kent L. Brintnall, and Joseph A. Marchal

How Soon Is (This Apocalypse) Now? Queer Velocities After a Corinthian Already and a Pauline Not Yet
Joseph A. Marchal

Unbinding Imperial Time: Chrononormativity and Paul's Letter to the Romans
James N. Hoke

The Futures Outside: Apocalyptic Epilogue Unveiled as Africana Queer Prologue
Eric A. Thomas

"Our Book of Revelation ... Prescribes Our Fate and Releases Us From It": Scriptural Disorientations in Cherríe Moraga's The Last Generation
Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

Queer Persistence: On Death, History, and Longing for Endings
Maia Kotrosits

Who Weeps for the Sodomite?
Kent L. Brintnall

"They Had No Rest From This Torment": Encountering the Apocalypse of Peter
Brock Perry
Excess and the Enactment of Queer Time: Futurity, Failure, and Formation in Feminist Theologies
Brandy Daniels

The Madness of Holy Saturday: Bipolar Temporality and the Queerdom of Heaven on Earth
Karen Bray

The Entrepreneur and the Big Drag: Risky Affirmation in Capital's Time
Linn Marie Tonstad

Queer Structures of Religious Feeling: What Time is Now?
Ann Pellegrini


More than a Feeling: A Queer Notion of Survivance
Laurel C. Schneider

Remember-When?
Karmen MacKendrick

Response: Queer Enfleshment
Mary-Jane Rubenstein

In Search of Queer Theology Lost
Mark D. Jordan

Response: Listing and Lusting
Catherine Keller

Afterword
Elizabeth Freeman

Endnotes

Editorial Reviews

"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."—Erin Runions, Pomona College

From the Publisher

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.

Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

...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.

Reviews in Religion and Theology

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.

Pomona College - Erin Runions