RT Book
T1 Profaning Paul
T2 Class 200: new studies in religion
A1 Concannon, Cavan W. 1979-
LA English
PP Chicago London
PB The University of Chicago Press
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/175331075X
AB Searching for Paul in the bathroom -- Staying with the shit -- Interlude : feeling like shit -- The Bible doesn't smell -- Interlude : owning my shit -- Redeeming Paul -- Splitting Paul -- Interlude : back to the dump -- Profaning Paul -- A sometimes Paul -- Paul's shit -- Refusing Paul.
AB "Paul's epistles are central to nearly every variation of Christianity, and there are as many different readings of Paul as there are sects of Christianity. Paul has also been co-opted by influential contemporary thinkers such as Agamben, Badiou, and Žižek. Religious scholar Cavan Concannon, however, has other plans. Taking as his starting point the language of excrement, refuse, and waste in Paul's letters, he reads these passages to think about the textual and material uses of garbage and excrement, and, ultimately, whether Paul's writings can be redeemed. Concannon presses on the tension between the evils that have been wrought through Paul's letters and the sacralizing effects of his place in the Christian canon. He drills down into the attempted redemption of Paul within radical European philosophical circles, but he reads these appropriations of Paul alongside professional biblical scholars who have sought to enlist Paul into their own liberal political projects. Concannon's book intervenes in the history of biblical studies, the use of Paul's letters by contemporary philosophers, and the political potential of feminist, African American, and queer biblical scholarship. Can Paul be redeemed, ultimately? Concannon insists the answer is no, but he argues that by paying attention both to why Paul can't be redeemed and what happens to interpreters who try, we can open up a space for Paul's archive to participate in the struggle for a more just future"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BS2651
SN 9780226815633
SN 9780226815657
K1 Paul : the Apostle, Saint
K1 Paul : the Apostle, Saint : Influence
K1 Bible : Epistles of Paul : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Bible : Epistles of Paul : Criticism, interpretation, etc : History