Unsettling Science and Religion
Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 24. May 2018
288 pages
978-1-4985-5642-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book borrows from the intellectual labor of queer theory in order to unsettle-or "queer"-the discourses of "religion" and "science," and, by extension, the "science and religion discourse." Drawing intellectual and social cues from works by influential theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Eve Sedgwick, chapters in this volume converge on at least three common features of queer theory. First, queer theory challenges givens that on occasion still undergird religiously and scientifically informed ways of thinking. Second, it takes embodiment seriously. Third, this engagement inevitably generates new pathways for thinking about how religious and scientific "truths" matter. These three features ultimately lend support to critical investigations into the meanings of "science" and "religion," and the relationships between the two.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 b/w illustrations; 3 tables; 3 graphs;
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-5642-2 (9781498556422)
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Lisa Stenmark | Whitney Bauman
Unsettling Science and Religion
Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies
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Lisa Stenmark teaches humanities and comparative religious studies at San Jose State University.
Whitney Bauman is associate professor of religious studies at Florida International University.
Whitney Bauman is associate professor of religious studies at Florida International University.
Content
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
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
