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Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation book cover

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Thinking Sex with the Great Whore Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation

By Luis Menéndez-Antuña Copyright 2018
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge
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Many scholars in Biblical and Revelation studies have written at length about the imperial and patriarchal implications of the figure of the Whore of Babylon. However, much of the focus has been on the links to the Roman Empire and ancient attitudes towards gender. This book adds another layer to the conversation around this evocative figure by pursuing an ideological critique of the Great Whore... Read more

1 Thinking Resistance in the Age of Empire: Ethical Evaluations of the Apocalypse of John  2 Thinking Apocalyptic Resistance in the Age of Empire  3 Thinking Sex with the Whore of Revelation  4 Thinking Sex with the Whore in the Present  5 Conclusion: Manifesting Revelation among the Manifestos

Biography

Luis Menéndez-Antuña is Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, California). His interests revolve around Postcolonial, Critical Race and Queer Theories as well as Liberation Hermeneutics. He has published peer-reviewed contributions both in Spanish (Theologica Xaveriana, Revista de Ciencias de Religiones) and in English (Biblical Interpretation, Journal of Religious Ethics, Early Christianity, Critical Research on Religion).

"In this book focused on the figure of the whore of Babylon, desire, and empire in Revelation, Menéndez-Antuña raises critical questions about the relationship of biblical studies to the present as well as the intersections between theory and ethical implications for flesh-and-blood readers. The particular attention to and insights about the conceptions of desire and subject formation could be (and in fact should be) extended to the interpretation of many other biblical texts." - Hilary McKane, Drew University
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