Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2022.2054253
David Torevell, Clive Palmer
ABSTRACT Mental health issues continue to beset sportsmen and women. This article explores the challenge of self-acceptance in relation to sexual identity and orientation within the footballing world. With reference to John Donnelly’s play The Pass it suggests that, largely due to personal, financial, social and media pressures, some professional athletes not only succumb to living up to the image others create for them, but more dangerously, begin to believe that image is real and do everything in their power to hold on to this self-deception. This simulacrum has a severe impact on their mental and physical health and creates what Merton refers to as ‘spiritual death’, leaving victims lonely and desolate, unable to form meaningful relationships. Primarily drawing from key theological/spiritual, sociological, philosophical and literary texts and, without ever implying a moral judgement on those who wrestle with this difficult issue, we illuminate the phenomenon of self-delusion from Christian and Buddhist perspectives in the hope that it might highlight some of its ensuing dangers.
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irruption. And it defies any conventional notion of progress. Although we like to imagine that a philosophical advance represents enduring progress from more rudimentary times, more often it overcomes an obstacle in the moment. It confronts a new problem. It finds a new way out. Philosophical methods evolve, but that does not mean that earlier approaches are wrong or no longer operative. Nor does it mean that those earlier approaches gave birth to better ones. They addressed a different time. They faced a different conjuncture. They resolved a discrete problem. They served a special purpose. And often, they unveiled one illusion only to expose another. Indeed, a philosophical praxis from an earlier time may be just as performative today, perhaps even more so. It depends on the situation it confronts. We may need it just as badly, or even more than we did at an earlier time. The exigencies of a new crisis may demand a return—though even that is never simply a repetition. To believe otherwise would be to buy into a speculative philosophy of history that has no purchase today. We have long A PREFACE TO PHILOSOPHICAL PRAXIS
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of sexuality. The first, entitled Sexuality, was given by Michel Foucault in 1964 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand as part of his teaching of general psychology. It exists in the form of an autograph manuscript of 121 pages numbered by Foucault and kept in the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Box 78). This manuscript, extensively prepared, does not present any special editing difficulties. The second, entitled The Discourse of Sexuality, was given in 1969 at the University of Vincennes as part of his teaching of philosophy. It exists in the form of an autograph manuscript of 103 pages partly numbered by Foucault and kept in the archives of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Box 51). Unlike the earlier course, the manuscript comprises more fragmentary notes, with many crossed-out passages and numerous variants. It required a specific form of editing. To make up for its sometimes limited preparation, we have tried to provide readers with as much information as possible in the accompanying critical apparatus, systematically documenting Foucault’s references. RULES FOR EDITING THE TEXTS
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2021.1981739
Charlotta Carlström
ABSTRACT This article is based on in-depth interviews with 29 Christian LGBTQ individuals and examines queer desires and feelings in Swedish Free-Church contexts. My point of departure is to analyze how the participants relate to religion and religious practices in connection with the tension that exists between their own emotions and desires and the emotional regime of the free churches to which they belong. The empirical data were interpreted through the theoretical concepts of emotional regimes, emotive dissonance, queerness and heteronormativity. The results show that to experience queer emotions and desires within a free-church community means to constantly be exposed to a hierarchical heteronormativity. Resisting and deviating from the Church's collective emotional regime always involves some form of sanction. Paradoxically, several interviewees testify how an exploration of queer relationships, sexualities and identities could be enabled just because of the heteronormative context.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2021.1964603
A. Lepine
ABSTRACT The Scottish architect John Ninian Comper (1864-1960) designed two alabaster altarpieces - one for the Lindsey Chapel in Boston and the other for the St Sebastian Chapel at Downside Abbey - in the aftermath of the Great War. This article contends that in both cases, the use of alabaster as well as the homosocial and homoerotic charge of the altarpieces' subjects are both visually and theologically queer. The figure of St Sebastian, which in the Downside altarpiece has links to Oscar Wilde and Renaissance art in the National Gallery, as well as the 36 female saints in the Lindsey Chapel, express and invite queer desire while simultaneously inspiring devotion in the context of the Eucharist. By interlacing theological and art historical perspectives, Comper's work in these two contexts is illuminated afresh both within and beyond the zones of transatlantic twentieth-century Anglo-Catholicism.
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