Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2023.2181658
Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar
traditions are necessary for social change, but new visions and languages have to be created as well (113f f.). In addition, Grelle’s attention to Gramsci’s understanding of “ideal interests” in chapter 6 is worth noting (122 ff.). Gramsci challenges orthodox Marxism’s reductionist focus on material interests showing that human life is driven by ideals as well. Moreover, this humanist emphasis allows Grelle to criticize overly suspicious approaches that denigrate human rights as “bourgeois freedoms.” Instead, Grelle stresses the importance of these freedoms in the struggle for justice of subaltern groups. With Gramsci, Grelle criticizes the denigration of certain ideas due to their “sectional” origin. Rather, he offers a compelling argument to see how these ideals can go beyond sectional interests and be universalized for the enhancement of all human life (127–28). What the reader misses in this fine book is some engagement with social movements of Gramscian inspiration. It is unfortunate that Grelle only mentions liberation theology once and in passing (64). To take an example, Gustavo Gutiérrez was deeply influenced by Gramsci and José Carlos Mariátegui’s creative, humanist interpretation of Marxism, an interpretation that he retrieved critically in the development of his theology. Closer attention to this and other concrete appropriations of Gramsci could have enriched the book greatly, especially in its constructive section.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2023.2231815
Whitney Harper
ABSTRACT The topic of abortion has continually received public attention in the United States, with men in leadership positions in the Church and presidential campaigns regularly speaking on it. While the dualistic pro-life versus pro-choice framework has been used by presidential candidates especially since the 1980’s, more recently it has framed public discussions about Eucharistic participation as well. In this article, I look at these discussions about Eucharistic participation with special attention to survivors of sexual assault. Reading this site where abortion, assault, and sacraments converge with hermeneutical tools taken from the work of Judith Butler and practices in trauma theory, this paper will focus especially on the effects of these practices on women who are faced with a challenge to their admittance to the Eucharistic space, which I argue is rooted in the misrecognition and essentialization of embodiment, and is a practice in a dissociative theology.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2023.2225369
Alex Bádue, Jeff Jay
ABSTRACT In December 2019 Netflix dropped The First Temptation of Christ, a Christmas special by the Brazilian comedy group Porta dos Fundos. The drama ensues when Jesus returns home on his thirtieth birthday after forty days in the desert with his flamboyantly gay lover Orlando. Outrage greeted the film’s release in Brazil and North America. On-line petitions demanded Netflix to take down the film, churches in Brazil filed lawsuits, and on Christmas eve an extremist group threw two Molotov cocktails at Porta’s office in Rio de Janeiro. We demonstrate that the film stages queer performance that disidentifies with toxic tropes from mainstream cultural sources. Porta’s liberative praxis creates queer Christian possibilities as it disrupts the present with queer futurity and hope. The film thus provides a source for indecent theology re-figuring a Christology that correlates more profoundly with how people live and love.
2019年12月，Netflix下架了巴西喜剧团体Porta dos Fundos制作的圣诞特别节目《基督的第一次诱惑》。当耶稣和他华丽的同性恋情人奥兰多在沙漠中呆了40天后，在他30岁生日那天回到家时，戏剧就开始了。这部电影在巴西和北美上映后引发了公愤。网上请愿要求Netflix撤下这部电影，巴西的教堂提起诉讼，在圣诞节前夕，一个极端组织向Porta在里约热内卢的办公室投掷了两枚燃烧弹。我们证明，电影舞台酷儿表演，不认同来自主流文化来源的有毒比喻。Porta的解放实践创造了酷儿基督教的可能性，因为它用酷儿的未来和希望破坏了现在。因此，这部电影为不雅神学提供了一个来源，重新塑造了一个与人们如何生活和爱更深刻相关的基督论。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2023.2206937
Jacek Goleń, Jan Kobak, Florence Kabala
ABSTRACT The article presents the correlation between religiosity and understanding of human sexuality among a selected group of young Kenyan Catholics. Our research aimed to pinpoint the contingencies between these variables with a view to reaching some conclusions and offering suggestions for religious education and pastoral care of youth and families. The present research into religiosity made use of Huber’s Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS). The respondents’ understanding of human sexuality was studied with the use of a survey prepared by the authors. Our research shows that an understanding of human sexuality from a Catholic point of view increases alongside an increase in one’s interest in religion, in religious convictions, and the centrality of religion in one’s life. The analyzed correlations occurred more frequently and were stronger among men than women. There were most connections among the youngest group of respondents, younger than 20 and currently receiving education.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2022.2139990
Mark A. Levand
In LGBTQ Catholics: A Guide to Inclusive Ministry, Yunuen Trujillo explores and outlines different ways Catholic parishes might best support LGBTQ Catholics through ministry and community. Grounding her work in the reality that many LGBTQ Catholics have often had to hide in fear of losing their faith community and connections to God, and speaking from her own vocation and context of ministry in Los Angeles, Trujillo aims to help parishes begin an LGBTQ ministry. In her guide, Trujillo offers useful insights into the dynamics in Catholic parishes that can help foster a culture of acceptance and communitybuilding for LGBTQ Catholics. LGBTQ Catholics begins with basic information for those not familiar with the experiences of LGBTQ people: offering information about the coming out process and relevant dynamics of which leaders should be aware for effective ministry, providing basic definitions, and naming and challenging common stereotypes within Catholic contexts. Trujillo offers comprehensible statements that dispel a range of myths around LGBTQ people. For example, when describing a friend’s experience of discernment into religious life, Trujillo noted that ‘a religious sister mistakenly told her that she could not be a religious if she was gay’ (16). Trujillo also distinguishes a gay sexual orientation from pedophilia – a mention that, for some, may seem out of place at best. However, in the Catholic context, it is not uncommon for some church leaders to conflate the two, as Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone did in 2010. Given these occurrences, it is unfortunate yet necessary that she include this distinction. Trujillo offers narratives familiar to many readers and succinctly calls out incorrect assumptions. While Trujillo does the important work of dispelling harmful myths, her framing in the initial section does risk harm through erasure. In the first half of the guide, Trujillo discusses ‘sexual orientation and identity,’ only naming gender identity in the latter half. Catholics with non-cis gender identities may feel unseen due to this terminology. Trujillo goes on in the latter half of the guide to mandate an equal pastoral approach to matters of sexual orientation and gender identity, but it may be possible, particularly given trends of conflating and omitting certain vocabulary within Catholic contexts, that this linguistic choice could be read as subtly exclusionary. While the omission of some words may make topics of sexuality more
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2022.2089541
Adnan S. Askari, B. Doolittle
ABSTRACT The interplay between Islam, sexuality, and mental health is complex. In large population studies, religiosity is associated with positive mental health outcomes. However, the data among LGBTQ populations is mixed. Structural, interpersonal, and individual forms of religious trauma may adversely affect the mental health of queer people in religious households, but robust social support can remedy these effects. In particular, the dual-identities of LGBTQ-identifying Muslims complicate their relationships with both religious and queer communities. Here, we present models of LGBTQ-inclusive Muslim spaces as intersectional pathways to positive mental health outcomes, simultaneously offering networks of social support and opportunities to engage with healthy religious coping mechanisms.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2022.2033585
E. Brown Dewhurst
ABSTRACT Maximus the Confessor believed that human nature was originally genderless and sexless and that humans would have this sexless nature restored to them in the resurrection. This paper contextualises Maximus’ theology within a landscape of ascetic, gender ambiguity, and considers what relevance his thought could have for today, given his rising importance in theological ethics. In particular, I focus on teasing out the contemporary ethical implications of sex and gender belonging to tropos – a malleable mode of human expression and movement toward the divine, rather than a fixity of nature.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2022.2095188
At the end of the preface to The Order of Things, Foucault writes: “I am restoring to our silent and apparently immobile soil its rifts, its instability, its flaws; and it is the same ground that is once more stirring under our feet.” While Foucault writes these words in the context of explaining the resonances and parallels between his earlier work on the history of madness (what he calls a “history of the Other”) and his work in The Order of Things (a “history of the same”), this rift-restoring work permeates Foucault’s oeuvre. Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical methods exposed and restored discontinuities and disparities that were (and continue to be) discursively smoothed over—whether through an interrogation of the constitution of the sexual subject, of the logics of punishment, or of the classification of knowledge (to name just a few). This book review symposium on Confessions of the Flesh, the long-awaited English translation of the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality series, reflects upon, emphasizes, and participates in this Foucauldian work of rift-restoration. Since the long-awaited posthumous publication of Les aveux de la chair in 2018, and the English translation three years later, the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality series has already been the subject of significant commentary and analysis. The esteemed scholars participating in this symposium have already made notable contributions to this growing body of work. This symposium builds on that work, contributing to the conversation in a number of ways—three of which this introduction aims to highlight. First, this symposium builds on a growing but still under-developed loci of analysis of Confessions of the Flesh (and of Foucault’s work more broadly)—that of religious and theological studies. There has been a long and sustained history of scholarship on Foucault and religion. From the late 1980’s onward, these scholars, including some of whom are a part of this symposium, have attended to how Foucault’s understanding of and engagement with Christianity, and with religion more broadly, has impacted the shape of his theorizations on the entanglements between subjectivity, truth, and ethics. The publication of Confessions of the Flesh has further highlighted the importance and value of this work. Foucault’s explicit engagement with the Christian tradition in the fourth volume of his history of sexuality has led to increased need for as well as interest by scholars who specialize in the history of Christianity and the interpretation of theological texts, doctrines, and practices. As the (successful) proposal for a new seminar on Foucault and Religion for the American Academy of Religion aptly put it: “While Christianity was important to Foucault’s work even before the History of Sexuality project, and while Foucault’s attention to the relations between knowledge, power, and subjectivity in modernity collided with questions of religion... the opportu
在《事物的秩序》序言的最后，福柯写道:“我正在把它的裂痕、不稳定和缺陷恢复到我们沉默的、显然不动的土壤中;正是这片土地再次在我们脚下翻腾。”虽然福柯写这些话是为了解释他早期关于疯狂史的作品(他称之为“他者的历史”)和他在《事物的秩序》(“同一的历史”)中的作品之间的共鸣和相似之处，但这种修复裂痕的工作贯穿了福柯的全部作品。福柯的考古学和宗谱学方法暴露并恢复了不连续性和差异，这些不连续性和差异曾经(并将继续)被话语所掩盖——无论是通过对性主体构成、惩罚逻辑或知识分类(仅举几例)的拷问。这次关于《肉体的忏悔》的书评研讨会，期待已久的福柯《性史》系列第四卷的英译本，反思、强调并参与了福柯式的裂痕修复工作。人们期待已久的《椅子之路》(Les aveux de la chair)于2018年在福柯死后出版，三年后又有了英文译本，福柯《性史》系列的第四卷已经成为重要评论和分析的主题。参加本次研讨会的受人尊敬的学者们已经为这一日益增长的工作体系做出了显著的贡献。本次研讨会以这项工作为基础，以多种方式促进对话，本导言旨在强调其中三种方式。首先，这次研讨会建立在对《肉体的告白》(以及更广泛地说，福柯的作品)——宗教和神学研究——不断增长但仍未得到充分发展的分析基础之上。关于福柯和宗教的学术研究已经持续了很长时间。从20世纪80年代后期开始，这些学者，包括一些参加本次研讨会的学者，一直在关注福柯对基督教的理解和参与，以及更广泛的宗教，是如何影响他关于主体性、真理和伦理之间纠缠的理论的形成的。《肉体的自白》的出版进一步突出了这部作品的重要性和价值。福柯在他的性学史的第四卷中对基督教传统的明确参与，导致了对专门研究基督教历史的学者的需求和兴趣的增加，以及对神学文本，教义和实践的解释。正如为美国宗教学会(American Academy of Religion)举办的一场关于福柯与宗教的新研讨会(成功地)提出的建议所恰当地指出的那样:“尽管基督教在《性史》项目之前就对福柯的作品很重要，尽管福柯对现代性中知识、权力和主体性之间关系的关注与宗教问题发生了冲突……打开探索福柯和宗教的途径的机会现在很紧迫。”这次研讨会做了一些这样的探索，提供了来自宗教研究的重要见解。例如，妮基·卡苏米·克莱门茨(Niki Kasumi Clements)在她的文章中，把她对古代晚期基督教禁欲主义的专业知识运用到福柯身上
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