Is Caravaggio a queer theologian? Paul's conversion on the way to Damascus

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ID3867985
AuthorsLuis Menéndez-Antuña (0000-0002-0686-6409, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume6
Issue2
Pages132-150
Publication date2018-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Research on Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2050-3032 • E-ISSN: 2050-3040
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2050303218774865
OpenAlexW2806396057
LanguageEN
References cited30

Queer theology has not paid enough attention to queer sex, how queers understand sexual intimate relationships outside hetero/homonormative frameworks, and more importantly, what notions of relationality with Otherness undergird those experiences and practices. This contribution exemplifies a trajectory of visualization-a theoretically based approach to reading art-where the practices of barebacking and cruising in queer subcultures trigger a reading of Caravaggio's Conversion on the Way the Damascus that, in turn, reads the biblical text (Acts 9) in terms of radical hospitality to Otherness. Barebacking and cruising as sexual practices documented in queer subcultures offer a framework to understand Caravaggio's artwork as a theological source and as an interpretation of the biblical text

Aesthetics · Art · Hospitality · Linguistics · Literature · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Byzantine Studies and History · Gender Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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