God's beauty parlor : and other queer spaces in and around the Bible

This book 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 rereadings staged not only in God's beauty parlor but also in God's boudoir, locker room, and war room, the author pursues the t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Moore, Stephen D., 1954-
Format:	Book
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2001]
Subjects:	Jesus Christ > Person and offices > Biblical teaching. Jésus-Christ > Personne et fonctions > Enseignement biblique. Jesus Christ. Bible > Gay interpretations. Bible > Interprétations homosexuelles. Bible. Homosexuality > Biblical teaching. Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Christianity. Sex > Biblical teaching. Masculinity of God > Biblical teaching. Gay interpretations of sacred works. Homosexuality. Monosexuality. Sexual orientation. Christology. Biblical teaching. Sex. Masculinity of God.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Year of Queer
God's Boudoir, God's Beauty Parlor ...
The Song of Songs in the History of Sexuality
Beautiful Brides
Scholarship Is Sexy
Allegory's Double Cross (Which Turns the Cross-Bearing Christian into a Christian Cross-Dresser)
The Breast Pump
Allegory's Engine
Carnival Queens
After the Carnival (the Commentator Removes His Makeup)
The New Allegorists
On the Face and Physique of the Historical Jesus
The Tannery
The Beauty Parlor
The Asylum
God's Locker Room, God's War Room
Sex and the Single Apostle
Of Men and Unmen
What's That Peculiar Thing Poking through the Tear in Saint Paul's Epistle to the Romans?
Things That Cannot Be Thought without Shame or Horror
The Locker Room
Revolting Revelations
War Book, I
War Book, II
In Lieu of a Conclusion: Lines Intended for a Public Lavatory Door in San Ysidro, California.