Sexual Disorientations
Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies
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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
...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.
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.
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.