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

ISBN-13: 9780367591526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 134 str.

Luis Menéndez-Antuña

Opis

Offering an emancipatory reading of Revelation 17-18 using Foucauldian, postcolonial and queer historiographies, this study uses the Great Whore of Babylon to set out alternative paths for identity construction in Biblical texts.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).