The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in the History of Gender and Sexuality
What is the place of the New Testament and early Christianity in the history of gender and sexuality? This essay explores this question in conversation with feminist and queer theory. It considers the terminology of sex, gender, sexual difference, sex acts, and sexuality both as theoretical concepts...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
Year: 2019, Pages: 1-18 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
New Testament
/ Church
/ Gender
/ Sexuality
/ Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
/ Butler, Judith 1956-
/ Feminist exegesis
/ Androzentrismus
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
| Further subjects: | B
Kosofsky Sedgwick, Eve
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | What is the place of the New Testament and early Christianity in the history of gender and sexuality? This essay explores this question in conversation with feminist and queer theory. It considers the terminology of sex, gender, sexual difference, sex acts, and sexuality both as theoretical concepts and in relation to New Testament and Early Christian Studies. It then surveys the question of ancient androcentrism and the methodological problem posed by the so-called linguistic turn, arguing that the ongoing study of gender and sexuality in the New Testament and early Christianity will, of necessity, continue to be a prismatic, if contested, exercise in writing “the history of the present.” |
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| ISBN: | 0190213418 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190213398.013.38 |