Hidden in Plain Sight? The Case of the Invisible Queer Womanist Biblical Scholar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21453274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vanessa Lovelace (0000-0003-0753-8543, Vanessa Lovelace is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Lancaster Theological Seminary. Lovelace earned her Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible from Chicago Theological Seminary, M.Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, and B.A. in Radio & Television from San Francisco State University. Her research interests include Deuteronomistic History; the intersection of the theory of gender and nation, race, and citizenship and biblical studies. Her email is: ., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 185-191 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biblical Theology Bulletin Journal of Bible and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0146-1079 • E-ISSN: 1945-7596 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01461079241274133 |
| OpenAlex | W4402067272 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article explores the politics of respectability, representation, and the intersection of academic womanist and queer hermeneutics of the Bible. As early as the nineteenth century, U.S. born-Black women have had to contend with race and gender prejudice to secure their rightful place in society. Too often this came at the cost of respectability politics. Middle class Black church women advocated for the adoption of a strict code of behavior by Black women in order to advance their agenda of respectability in society. I am interested in whether the politics of respectability both within the church and academy have contributed to the essential invisibility of LGBTIAQ2+-identified womanist biblical scholars or womanist scholarship using a queer hermeneutical approach. Have the male heteropatriarchy and biblical authority in the church and academy effectively silenced womanist LGBTI/queer scholarship? This article suggests that while this may have been true of the past, the closet doors are opening and a growing number of womanist scholars are embracing LGBTI/queer methodological approaches in biblical interpretation
Art · Astronomy · Biblical studies · Literature · Physics · Queer · Sight · Sociology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Development, Ethics, and Society · Gender Studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |