The queer life of Christian exceptionalism
This response to Jasbir Puar's monograph, "Terrorist assemblages: homonationalism in queer times" (2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press), brings Puar's analysis to bear on the current attraction to 'Christian identity' as a historical analytic in the fields of New Te...
Subtitles: | "Terrorist assemblages" meets the study of religion: rethinking queer studies |
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Format: | Electronic/Print Review |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2014]
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In: |
Culture and religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 158-165 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Primitive Christianity
/ Biblical studies
/ Queer theory
/ Religious identity
/ American Exceptionalism
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy HC New Testament KBQ North America NCF Sexual ethics |
Further subjects: | B
Book review
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Summary: | This response to Jasbir Puar's monograph, "Terrorist assemblages: homonationalism in queer times" (2007. Durham, NC: Duke University Press), brings Puar's analysis to bear on the current attraction to 'Christian identity' as a historical analytic in the fields of New Testament and early Christian Studies, and to increasing associations of the ancient emergence of 'Christian identity' with transgressive queerness. I argue that this latter trend, especially, abets certain forms of Christian exceptionalism under the guise of resistance against empire, but I also suggest that this scholarship reveals certain affinities between the notion of queerness as pure transgression and contemporary Christianity. |
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ISSN: | 1475-5610 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2014.911035 |