Untold tales from the Book of Revelation: sex and gender, empire and ecology
The Book of Revelation is the New Testaments most notable example of anti-imperial resistance literature, its most sex-preoccupied text, and its most ecologically pertinent text. These essays bring multiple contemporary interpretive lenses to bear on Revelations apocalyptic opacities and ethical con...
| Résumé: | The Book of Revelation is the New Testaments most notable example of anti-imperial resistance literature, its most sex-preoccupied text, and its most ecologically pertinent text. These essays bring multiple contemporary interpretive lenses to bear on Revelations apocalyptic opacities and ethical conundrums. Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. What Is, What Was, and What May Yet Be -- 2. Mimicry and Monstrosity -- 3. Revolting Revelations -- 4. Hypermasculinity and Divinity -- 5. The Empress and the Brothel Slave -- 6. Raping Rome -- 7. Retching on Rome -- 8. Derridapocalypse -- 9. Quadrupedal Christ -- 10. Ecotherology -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors. |
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| Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Description matérielle: | Online-Ressource (302 p) |
| ISBN: | 1589839900 |