Dancing in the Dark: Marcella Althaus-Reid and Negative Queer Theory
In this article, I confront Marcella Althaus-Reid's thinking with the recent 'negative turn' in queer theory, as observed by Judith Halberstam. What remains when the belief in our world as such, and in the future of it, has to be totally rejected, as some queer theorists like Leo Bers...
| Published in: | Feminist theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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Feminist theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NAB Fundamental theology NBC Doctrine of God NBF Christology |
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Marcella Althaus-Reid
B negative turn B Queer Theory B no future B REDEMPTION in Christianity B negative queer theory B ALTHAUS-Reid, Marcella |
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| Summary: | In this article, I confront Marcella Althaus-Reid's thinking with the recent 'negative turn' in queer theory, as observed by Judith Halberstam. What remains when the belief in our world as such, and in the future of it, has to be totally rejected, as some queer theorists like Leo Bersani and Lee Edelman, for example, claim? Or, in theological terms: what could the categories of redemption, salvation and liberation still mean if one wishes to think God within history, but at the same time rejects this history? I investigate these questions by focusing on two central concepts of Althaus-Reid's indecent theology, incarnation and redemption. First, brought into dialogue with negative queer politics, I argue that Althaus-Reid helps us to develop an understanding of radical incarnation in the flesh on the 'underside' of society. Second, I look at Althaus-Reid's critique of the traditional Christian understanding of redemption and her alternative of a notion of redemption that is connected to love, solidarity and reciprocity, instead of to a one-way act of grace by a transcendent God. I conclude that a 'negative queer theology', when developed in line with Althaus-Reid's insights, necessarily maintains an affirmative undercurrent, a belief in an unknown life. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735018759450 |