Overkill
Why Excess and Conflict are both Sexy and Sacred
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901453 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Caputi (Florida Atlantic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 277-292 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jsrnc.v1i3.277 |
| OpenAlex | W1993092023 |
| Language | EN |
In popular understandings, both excess and conflict are understood as compelling, even ‘sexy’. Drawing from the perspectives of feminist theory, history, and theology, I consider the ways that patriarchal cultures eroticize possession, domination, and taboo violation, leading to this popular apprehension. I critique some of the ways that patriarchal conceptions of sex and God, both founded in a gendered conception of power as domination, intersect to influence significantly and foment harms including environmental devastation
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Apprehension · Epistemology · Possession (linguistics · Power (physics · Sociology · Taboo · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |