Biblical Studies, Queer Affect, and the Politics of Respectability

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ID21453395
AuthorsKen Stone (Ken Stone is Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Bible, Culture, and Hermeneutics at Chicago Theological Seminary. He is the author of Practicing Safer Texts: Food, Sex and Bible in Queer Perspective and Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies; and co-editor with Teresa Hornsby of Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship. His current research project brings together queer animalities, ecospirituality, and biblical interpretation. His email is ., corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume54
Issue3
Pages177-184
Publication date2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBiblical Theology Bulletin Journal of Bible and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0146-1079 • E-ISSN: 1945-7596
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/01461079241274132
OpenAlexW4402071576
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

This essay uses autobiographical, queer, and affective criticism to consider the implications of respectability politics for openly gay white men in biblical studies. Several anecdotes are narrated as a way of engaging the role of respectability politics in contemporary LGBTQ cultures, in queer biblical scholarship, in theological education, and in the affective life of a gay biblical scholar and teacher. A theoretical conclusion engages Michel Foucault and Judith Butler to suggest that LGBTQ biblical scholars might wish to practice “not being governed quite so much” by the norms and methods of mainstream academic biblical scholarship

Affect (linguistics) · Art · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Communication · Development, Ethics, and Society · Gender Studies · Law · Religion, Society, and Development

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