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“Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Wall”: Queer Theologies and Reparative Readings

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dc.creator Cornwall, Susannah
dc.date 2015-10-20T12:15:27Z
dc.date 2016-02-18
dc.identifier Published online: 18 February 2016
dc.identifier 10.1080/13558358.2015.1115596
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18495
dc.identifier 1355-8358
dc.identifier 1745-5170
dc.identifier Theology and Sexuality
dc.description A set of recent conversations among scholars working in queer cultural and literary theory has focused on the trope of reparative reading. Reparative readings, usually contrasted with the “paranoid” criticism of those working in the Butlerian tradition, are often informed by the writings of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. This paper explores the “reparative turn” in the context of Christian queer theologies, and suggests that it may include practices of “sociability with the dead”: both listening to and honouring the abjected past of queer ancestors, and continuing to be in conversation with the damaging and hurtful parts of the Christian tradition as a means of holding them accountable.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Maney / Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality
dc.rights 2017-02-18
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dc.subject Queer theology
dc.subject Paranoia
dc.subject Reparation
dc.subject Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
dc.title “Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Wall”: Queer Theologies and Reparative Readings
dc.type Article


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