Is Caravaggio a queer theologian? Paul's conversion on the way to Damascus

Queer theology has not paid enough attention to queer sex, how queers understand sexual intimate relationships outside hetero/homonormative frameworks, and more importantly, what notions of relationality with Otherness undergird those experiences and practices. This contribution exemplifies a trajec...

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Main Author: Menéndez Antuña, Luis (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Critical research on religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 132-150
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Damaskuserlebnis / LGBT / Interpretation of / Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da 1571-1610, Bekehrung Pauli
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CE Christian art
HC New Testament
Further subjects:B Queer Theology
B Hospitality
B Caravaggio
B Queer Theory
B Acts
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Summary:Queer theology has not paid enough attention to queer sex, how queers understand sexual intimate relationships outside hetero/homonormative frameworks, and more importantly, what notions of relationality with Otherness undergird those experiences and practices. This contribution exemplifies a trajectory of visualization-a theoretically based approach to reading art-where the practices of barebacking and cruising in queer subcultures trigger a reading of Caravaggio's Conversion on the Way the Damascus that, in turn, reads the biblical text (Acts 9) in terms of radical hospitality to Otherness. Barebacking and cruising as sexual practices documented in queer subcultures offer a framework to understand Caravaggio's artwork as a theological source and as an interpretation of the biblical text.
ISSN:2050-3040
Contains:Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/2050303218774865