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Stephen D. Moore · 2001
Moore's queer-theological readings of biblical texts; complements Brooten + Jordan in the queer-Christianity reading cluster.
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What this book knows
Queer theory applied to biblical and religious texts reveals how desire, beauty, and bodies have always haunted sacred space.
embodiment
God's beauty parlor is the tomb, and resurrection is the ultimate makeover — Jesus poised between resurrection and ascension, merely in curlers.
MOOR-GBP-RC-067Physical beauty is always already a concept racially defined; the conflation of beauty and holiness comes to a head in readings of Song 1:5.
MOOR-GBP-RC-069erotic-as-power
In the face of this endless act of double penetration, sustained by two eternal erections, all earthly lovers can only wait anxiously outside the door.
MOOR-GBP-RC-074Cross-dressing offers a challenge to easy notions of binarity — spiritual cross-dressers constituting a third gender in relation to their cultural habitat.
MOOR-GBP-RC-049religion-and-sex
Your breasts are more delightful than wine — the Virgin's bodily breasts made almost divine by continual contact of the adorable, incarnate Bridegroom.
MOOR-GBP-RC-072Become beautiful and then touch me; live by faith and you are beautiful — Augustine's transformation of the Noli me tangere into an aesthetics of desire.
MOOR-GBP-RC-066Illuminates
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