Unsettling Science and Religion - Contributions and Questions From Queer Studies

Informationen zum Autor Emilie M. Townes is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Ethics and Society and University Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Klappentext This volume extends the insights of queer theory in order to unsettle or "queer" our understandings of "religion," "science," and the relationship between them. It asks how queer religion, science, and philosophy can and/or should be as a way to continue our conversations and explorations of the world in which we live. Zusammenfassung This volume extends the insights of queer theory in order to unsettle or “queer” our understandings of “religion,” “science,” and the relationship between them.  It asks how queer religion, science, and philosophy can and/or should be as a way to continue our conversations and explorations of the world in which we live. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Lisa Stenmark and Whitney Bauman 1. Both/And: Science, Religion, and the Fluidity of Identity Philip Clayton and Kirianna Florez 2. If You Quare It You Can Change It: Changing the Boxes That Bind Us Emilie M. Townes 3. Thinking through Three Revolutions: Religion, Science and Colonialism Lisa Stenmark 4. Queering Authority in Science and Religion Whitney Bauman 5. Polyamorous Bastards: James Baldwin and Desires of a Queer African-American Religious Naturalism Carol Wayne White 6. Slenderman: A Trans Hermeneutic of the Apocalypse Teresa Hornsby 7. 'Nothing in This World is Indifferent to Us': A Dialogical Reflection on the Queerness of Theology and Science Catherine Keller and Laurel Schneider 8. Queering the Dissident Body: Race, Sex, and Disability in Rabbinic Blessings on Bodily Difference Julia Watts Belser 9. 'Adam is Not Man: The Queer Body before Genesis 2:22 (and after) Zairong Xiang 10. Gender and Indeterminacy in Jewish Mystical Imagery Fern Feldman 11. Toward a Bright and Messy Future: The Global Ecological Crisis, the Problem of Heteronormative Bias, and the Necessity of a Queer Ecological Imagination Alex Carr Johnson 12. Queering the Library of Congress Carlos Fernandez Petrichor: An Afterword Timothy Morton Annotated Bibliography About the Contributors ...

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Bauman Stenmark
• Assisted by: Whitney Bauman (Editor), Bauman Whitney (Editor), Lisa Stenmark (Editor), Morton Timothy (Afterword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781498556415
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5641-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse; Religion and Science as a Crit; Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SCIENCE / History, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Gay & Lesbian studies, Religion and science, Religion & science, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics