By Marcella Althaus-Reid
There are those that visit homosexual bars and salsa golf equipment with rosaries of their wallet, and who make camp chapels in their residing rooms. Others input church buildings with love letters hidden of their luggage, simply because their want for God and their want for romance refuse to slot into varied booths. yet what goodness and righteousness can be triumphant while you are in love with anyone whom you're ecclesiastically now not presupposed to love? the place is God in a salsa bar?The Queer God introduces a brand new theology from the margins of sexual deviance and financial exclusion. Its chapters on Bisexual Theology, Sadean holiness, homosexual worship in Brazil and Queer sainthood mark the hunt for a distinct face of God - the Queer God who demanding situations the oppressive powers of hetero orthodoxy, whiteness and international capitalism. encouraged through the transgressive areas of Latin American spirituality, the place the studies of slum youngsters merge with Queer interpretations of grace and holiness, The Queer God seeks to disencumber God from the closet of conventional Christian concept, and to embody God's half within the lives of gays, lesbians and the poor.Only a theology that dares to be radical can convey us the presence of God in our instances. The Queer God creates an idea of holiness that overcomes sexual and colonial prejudices and exhibits how Queer Theology is eventually the hunt for God's personal deliverance. utilizing Liberation Theology and Queer idea, it exposes the sexual roots that underlie all theology, and takes the quest for God to new depths of social and sexual exclusion.
Read or Download The Queer God PDF
Best gay & lesbian books
Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature
Male Sexuality less than Surveillance is a full of life, clever, and expertly argued research of the development of male sexuality within the enterprise workplace. Graham Thompson interweaves 3 major threads: a historicized cultural research of the improvement of the fashionable enterprise place of work from its beginnings within the early 19th century to the current day, a Foucauldian dialogue of the workplace because the web site of assorted disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical dialogue of the textualization of the homosexual male physique as a tool for generating a taxonomy of male-male family.
Summer time, 1976. A aircraft crashes on a farm within the Cambridgeshire fens. Out of the flames walks younger Maggie Beck, clutching a child in her fingers. Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden - traveling his spouse, Laura, in health facility - is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession. yet a few secrets and techniques are most sensible stored mystery, and what began for Dryden as a small and curious tale in regards to the simply survivor of an almost-forgotten aircraft crash quickly escalates right into a full-blown homicide research.
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
In chilly warfare the USA, Senator Joseph McCarthy loved large help within the struggle opposed to what he known as atheistic communism. yet that help stemmed much less from his wild fees approximately communists than his extra substantiated fees that "sex perverts" had infiltrated govt enterprises. even supposing now remembered as an assault on suspected disloyalty, McCarthyism brought "moral values" into the yankee political arsenal.
Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories
A teenager woman is mocked whilst she takes a bathtub along with her friends, simply because her genitals seem like these of a boy. a pair visits a physician asking to ‘create extra space’ within the girl for sex. a physician unearths testicular tissue in a lady with appendicitis, and comes to a decision to maintain his findings quiet.
- A City Comes Out: The Gay and Lesbian History of Palm Springs
- The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government
- Authority and Transgression in Literature and Film (Selected Papers on Literature & Film)
- Design For Love
Additional info for The Queer God
Example text
This is the point that I have argued in my previous work with that Queer, political thinking which informs the project of an Indecent Theology. The revelation that occurs in intimate acts, in the perceived chaotic history of intimate human relationships in history, has been systematically marginalised and silenced by a highly idealistic sexually hegemonic theological project, heavily dependent on a colonial model. However, the kenotic Queer model can even go beyond the finding of God’s revelation in the complex world of human sexuality, and using a dialogic model imply that God’s divinity depends on God’s own presence amidst the sexual turbulences of human beings’ intimate relationships, whose knowledge is the knowledge of the excluded queerness in Christianity.
It is not the site of individualism in theology that we are pursuing here, but the site of the intimate reunion, of community gatherings, of interrelationships, the dynamics of which ‘don’t go to the ports’ (using our previous metaphor of imperial road building) but where complex processes of exchange (physical, emotional, and as in the case of Sade, intellectual) occur. Our search is for theological interchanges of intimacy, sexual identities and politics in the dark alleys behind our churches; the search for God in dark alleys.
For instance, the work of Sade and the erotology of the Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst occupy different sites and locations of erotic exchanges. However, what they may have in common is that these texts of subversion of bodies, as present in Sade and Hilst, succeed by creating different sorts of indexes of relationship between a subject and its objects. Using a concept from Peter Hitchcock, we can say that they create theological prostheses, by showing the presence of mutations in the theological images of the body and the body of God and knowledge (Hitchcock 1999: 87).