What Is Queer? Theology after Identity
This article discusses various uses of ‘queer’ in theology, from the queerness of theology itself to queer as insult, and as insult turned. But it is chiefly concerned with queer as what David Halperin calls an ‘identity without an essence’. As such, queer is a movement, a deployment, which unsettle...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2008
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Theology & sexuality
Year: 2008, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 143-152 |
| Further subjects: | B
Gender Identity
B Queer Theory B David Halperin |
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| Summary: | This article discusses various uses of ‘queer’ in theology, from the queerness of theology itself to queer as insult, and as insult turned. But it is chiefly concerned with queer as what David Halperin calls an ‘identity without an essence’. As such, queer is a movement, a deployment, which unsettles all attempts to fix theology—and God—within the contingent lineaments of heteropatriarchy. Queer is what all theology should be. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1355835807087376 |