"God's Beauty Parlor" opens the Bible to the contested body of
critical commentary on sex and sexuality known as queer theory and
to masculinity studies. Through a series of dazzling rereadings
staged not only in God's beauty parlor, but also in God's boudoir,
locker room, and war room, the author pursues the themes of
homoeroticism, masculinity, beauty, and violence through such texts
as the Song of Songs, the Gospels, the Letter to the Romans, and
the Book of Revelation.
He ponders such matters as the curious place of the Song of Songs
in the history of sexuality, or how an apparent paean to
male-female love became a pretext for literary cross-dressing for
legions of male Jewish and Christian commentators; Jesus' face and
physique in relation to ideologies of beauty, ranging from the
patristic era, when the "earthly" Jesus was regularly represented
as ugly, to the contemporary global culture industry, with its
trademark equation of looks with worth; the gendered and sexual
substratum of Paul's doctrine of salvation embedded in his most
influential epistle--not least his gendering of righteousness as
masculine and sin as feminine; and the intimate imbrication of
masculinity and mass death in Revelation, a book about war making
men making war-making men . . . some of whom also happen to be
gods.
"God's Beauty Parlor" is an exhilarating attempt to bring some of
the most significant currents in contemporary gender studies to
bear on a text that, even in the post-Christian West, remains the
ultimate cultural icon, cipher, and shibboleth.
General
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences |
| Release date: |
September 2002 |
| First published: |
September 2002 |
| Authors: |
Stephen D Moore
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade / Trade / Trade
|
| Pages: |
362 |
| Edition: |
Revised |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8047-4332-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8047-4332-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780804743327 |
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