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God’s Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible

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Description for God’s Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible Paperback. God's Beauty Parlor opens the Bible to the contested body of critical commentary on sex and sexuality known as queer theory and to masculinity studies. The author pursues the themes of homoeroticism, masculinity, beauty, and violence through such texts as the Song of Songs, the Gospels, the Letter to the Romans, and the Book of Revelation. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 507.

God's Beauty Parlor opens the Bible to the contested body of critical commentary on sex and sexuality known as queer theory and to masculinity studies. Through a series of dazzling rereadings staged not only in God's beauty parlor, but also in God's boudoir, locker room, and war room, the author pursues the themes of homoeroticism, masculinity, beauty, and violence through such texts as the Song of Songs, the Gospels, the Letter to the Romans, and the Book of Revelation.

He ponders such matters as the curious place of the Song of Songs in the history of sexuality, or how an ... Read more

God's Beauty Parlor is an exhilarating attempt to bring some of the most significant currents in contemporary gender studies to bear on a text that, even in the post-Christian West, remains the ultimate cultural icon, cipher, and shibboleth.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804743327
SKU
V9780804743327
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Stephen D. Moore
Stephen D. Moore is Professor of New Testament at Drew University Theological School. His most recent book is God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible.

Reviews for God’s Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible
"Too often the debate about the Bible and homosexuality is reduced to a dull episode of Crossfire. On the right, the Book of Romans condemns queers! On the left, the Book of Romans celebrates queers! In four essays Moore queers the debate for both sides, discussing the gay iconography of Jesus, the Song of Solomon, and the masculinity of the ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for God’s Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and Around the Bible


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