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Reclaiming the Sacred - The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
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Reclaiming the Sacred - The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, Second Edition (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
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The second edition of Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and
Lesbian Culture continues the groundbreaking work of the original,
exploring the territory between gay/lesbian studies, literary
criticism, and religious studies. This much-anticipated follow-up
examines the appropriation and/or subversion of the authority of
the Judeo-Christian Bible by gay and lesbian writers. The book
highlights two prevalent trends in gay and lesbian literature--a
transgressive approach that challenges the authority of the Bible
when used as an instrument of oppression, and an appropriative
technique that explores how the Bible contributes to defining gay
and lesbian spirituality.
Reviewers of the first edition of Reclaiming the Sacred hailed the
book's enterprise in exploring the area between literary criticism
and religious studies. Whereas contemporary literary-critical
theory has been slow to integrate religion and religious history
into queer theory, this pioneering journal has addressed the issue
from the start with a collection of thoughtful and though-provoking
articles.
This latest edition expands coverage to include noncanonical
ancient texts, popular Victorian religious texts, and contemporary
theater. Academics and lay readers interested in literary
criticism, cultural studies, and religious studies will gain new
insights from topics such as: religious mystery and homosexual
identity in Terrence McNally's "Corpus Christi" same-sex biblical
couples in Victorian literature homoerotic texts in the Apocrypha
sodomite rhetoric in a seventeenth-century Italian text Radclyffe
Hall's lesbian messiah in her 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness
homosexual temptation in John Milton's Paradise Regained Reclaiming
the Sacred counteracts the manipulative and oppressive uses to
which modern writers and thinkers put the Bible and the "morality"
it is presumed to inscribe. An important tool for understanding the
role of the Bible in gay and lesbian culture, this remarkable book
makes a powerful contribution to the advancement of studies on
queer sanctity.
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