Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body (Bbpg) - Hardcover

 
9780631216070: Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body (Bbpg)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0631216073 ISBN 13: 9780631216070
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

Queer Theology makes an important contribution to public debate about Christianity and sex.


  • 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.

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About the Author

Gerard Loughlin is Professor of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham. His previous publications include Telling God’s Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology (1996) and Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (Blackwell, 2004). He is a co-editor of the Journal Theology and Sexuality.

From the Back Cover

Queer Theology makes an important contribution to public debate about Christianity and sex. This remarkable collection of essays reconceptualizes the body and its desires, enlarging the meaning of sexuality for the good of the churches.


Written by some of the most able and insightful of Anglo-American scholars, established and up-coming, and from a variety of academic and religious backgrounds, the book shows how western bodies are queerer than often thought, and that the same is true of the God who elicits and tutors their desires.

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Queer Theology makes an important contribution to public debate about Christianity and sex. This remarkable collection of essays reconceptualizes the body and its desires, enlarging the meaning of sexuality for the good of the churches.


Written by some of the most able and insightful of Anglo-American scholars, established and up-coming, and from a variety of academic and religious backgrounds, the book shows how western bodies are queerer than often thought, and that the same is true of the God who elicits and tutors their desires.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0631216073
ISBN 13 
9780631216070
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
368
Editor
Loughlin Gerard

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