Denise Kimber Buell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1019162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise Kimber Buell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise Kimber |
| FAMILY NAME | Buell |
| SIGNATURE | BUELL D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Paul the Mystic
HOW DO YOU register an obscured legacy? There is a rich body of scholarship that has recovered contributions of those who have, by embodiment, epistemology, or socio-structural position, been marginalized, minoritized, or “written out of history.” Complementary work in disciplinary history focuses on the constitutive forces that shape disciplinary norms. This article argues that the perspectives and publications of the members of the Theosophical…
Introduction
This article introduces a thematic issue of Biblical Interpretation on the “temporal turn” in queer theory as it relates to biblical studies. Queer theorists of time have variously interrogated inherited concepts of history, historiography, historicity, and/or periodicity; the chrononormativity that regulates contemporary sexual lives; reproductive futurism, which evokes “our children” and their future to shore up heteronormativity and anathemati…
Hauntology Meets Posthumanism
The Afterlife Is Not Dead
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Why This New Race
Why This New Race offers a radical new way of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that from its beginnings sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view by revealing the centrality of ethnicity and race in early definitions of Christianity. Buell's readings of various texts consider the use of "ethnic reasoning" to depict…
Making Christians
1Tracing Procreation: The Origins of Origin Stories21Ch. 2The Social Force of Metaphors for Procreation32Ch. 3Sowing Knowledge: Procreation and Pedagogy50Ch. 4Defending Teaching Methods with Procreative Language69Ch. 5Few Are Like Their Fathers: The Rhetoric of Genealogy and Intra-Christian Polemic79Ch. 6Allegiance to the True Father: Kinship Metaphors as Border Discourse95Ch. 7A Rhetoric of Christian Unity: Christians as Children of the Father o…
Making Christians
Producing Descent/Dissent
In the second century, Christians vied with each other to produce an authoritative discourse on Christian identity. Some early Christians deployed historically- and culturally-specific notions of procreation and kinship in their struggles with each other over claims to represent the truth of Christian biblical interpretation, practices, and doctrine. The extant writings of the late second-century Christian author Clement of Alexandria offer a gen…
The Afterlife Is Not Dead
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Producing Descent/Dissent
In the second century, Christians vied with each other to produce an authoritative discourse on Christian identity. Some early Christians deployed historically- and culturally-specific notions of procreation and kinship in their struggles with each other over claims to represent the truth of Christian biblical interpretation, practices, and doctrine. The extant writings of the late second-century Christian author Clement of Alexandria offer a gen…
Making Christians
Making Christians
1Tracing Procreation: The Origins of Origin Stories21Ch. 2The Social Force of Metaphors for Procreation32Ch. 3Sowing Knowledge: Procreation and Pedagogy50Ch. 4Defending Teaching Methods with Procreative Language69Ch. 5Few Are Like Their Fathers: The Rhetoric of Genealogy and Intra-Christian Polemic79Ch. 6Allegiance to the True Father: Kinship Metaphors as Border Discourse95Ch. 7A Rhetoric of Christian Unity: Christians as Children of the Father o…
Why This New Race
Why This New Race offers a radical new way of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that from its beginnings sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view by revealing the centrality of ethnicity and race in early definitions of Christianity. Buell's readings of various texts consider the use of "ethnic reasoning" to depict…
The Afterlife Is Not Dead
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hauntology Meets Posthumanism
Introduction
This article introduces a thematic issue of Biblical Interpretation on the “temporal turn” in queer theory as it relates to biblical studies. Queer theorists of time have variously interrogated inherited concepts of history, historiography, historicity, and/or periodicity; the chrononormativity that regulates contemporary sexual lives; reproductive futurism, which evokes “our children” and their future to shore up heteronormativity and anathemati…
Paul the Mystic
HOW DO YOU register an obscured legacy? There is a rich body of scholarship that has recovered contributions of those who have, by embodiment, epistemology, or socio-structural position, been marginalized, minoritized, or “written out of history.” Complementary work in disciplinary history focuses on the constitutive forces that shape disciplinary norms. This article argues that the perspectives and publications of the members of the Theosophical…
Philosophy (6 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theology (3 works)