God-language in public and private prayer: a place for integrating gender, sexuality and faith

Drawing on feminist liturgical critiques of prayer, Audre Lorde's notion of the erotic and Carter Heyward's relational theology, amongst other feminist, Womanist, Black and queer sources, this article proposes that prayer via gendered and erotic images of God and Christ may be a site for t...

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Main Author: Slee, Nicola 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2015]
In: Theology & sexuality
Year: 2014, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-237
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Prayer / Idea of God / Eroticism / Sexual behavior / Integration
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
FD Contextual theology
NBC Doctrine of God
NCF Sexual ethics
RC Liturgy
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:Drawing on feminist liturgical critiques of prayer, Audre Lorde's notion of the erotic and Carter Heyward's relational theology, amongst other feminist, Womanist, Black and queer sources, this article proposes that prayer via gendered and erotic images of God and Christ may be a site for the integration of gender, sexuality and faith - not only in the life of the individual but in the wider body politic. The notion of integration is problematized alongside heteropatriarchal practices of prayer, and an eschatological understanding of prayer and identity offered. The article argues for prayer which engages with a multiplicity of embodied, erotic and queer images of God (and particularly Christ), as necessary to the complex work of personal and political integration with which prayer is charged as well as gesturing towards the fullness and mystery of God who both inhabits and transcends the limitations of metaphorical discourse about the divine.
ISSN:1355-8358
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1179/1355835815Z.00000000052