Luis Menéndez-Antuña

Thinking Sex with the Great Whore

Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 218g
• ISBN-13: 9780367591526
• ISBN-10: 0367591529
• Artikelnr.: 66583907

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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