Lee Edelman and the Queer Study of Religion

<p>This book takes the groundbreaking work of Lee Edelman in queer theory and for the first time demonstrates its importance and relevance to contemporary theology biblical studies and religious studies. It argues that despite extensive interest in Edelman’s work we have barely begun to understand the significance of Edelman’s ideas both in their own right and with respect to the study of religion. Therefore it offers fresh approaches to Edelman’s work that necessarily complicate the established interpretations of his thinking. With essays by rising and established scholars as well as a response by Edelman himself it contends that by fully engaging Edelman scholars of religion will have to confront negativity and its consequences in ways that will contribute to reshaping the terrain of scholarship on religion race sexuality and social change. The insights provided in this book are new territory for much of the study of religion. As such it will be of keen interest to scholars of religious studies theology and Biblical studies as well as gender studies and queer feminist and critical race theory.</p>