1st Edition

Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion

280 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.