1st Edition
Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion
This book takes the groundbreaking work of Lee Edelman in queer theory and, for the first time, demonstrates its importance and relevance to contemporary theology, biblical studies, and religious studies. It argues that despite extensive interest in Edelman’s work, we have barely begun to understand the significance of Edelman’s ideas both in their own right and with respect to the study of religion. Therefore, it offers fresh approaches to Edelman’s work that necessarily complicate the established interpretations of his thinking. With essays by rising and established scholars, as well as a response by Edelman himself, it contends that by fully engaging Edelman, scholars of religion will have to confront negativity and its consequences in ways that will contribute to reshaping the terrain of scholarship on religion, race, sexuality, and social change. The insights provided in this book are new territory for much of the study of religion. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, and Biblical studies, as well as gender studies and queer, feminist, and critical race theory.
1 Fuck the Survivor: Refusing the Future Promised by the Sanctified Cancer Patient
M. COOPER MINISTER
2 Sexual Violence and the "End" of Subjectivity: Queer Negativity and a Theopolitics of Refusal
BRANDY DANIELS
3 Conquest’s Compulsion: Against the Promise of the Promised Land in the Hebrew Bible
RHIANNON GRAYBILL
4 Qohelet’s Queer Negativity
JARED BEVERLY
5 "He Changes Times and Seasons": Daniel, Sinthomosexuality, and Queer Time
CARYN TAMBER-ROSENAU
6 Flaming Faggotry, Fractured Futurities, and Horizons of Hope in the Acts of Xanthippe, Polyxena, and Rebecca
PETER ANTHONY MENA
7 Losing Ground: From Anti-Gang Apocalypticism to Social Dis/Repair
ERIN RUNIONS
8 Queer Negativity and Racial Antagonism: Edelman, Afro-Pessimism, and the Limits of Recognition
JOSEPH WINTERS
9 Revolutionary Grace: Insisting, with Edelman, on Bataille’s Deep Subversion
KENT L. BRINTNALL
10 Queering the Death of God
EMILY MCAVAN
11 Cripping Image: Disability, Queer Negativity, and God the Sinthomosexual
MAX THORNTON
12 Saying Nothing
LINN MARIE TONSTAD
Biography
Kent L. Brintnall is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte affiliated with the Department of Religious Studies and the Women’s & Gender Studies Program.
Rhiannon Graybill is the Marcus M. and Carole M. Weinstein & Gilbert M. and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Richmond.
Linn Marie Tonstad is Associate Professor of Theology, Religion, and Sexuality at Yale Divinity School.
