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God's Beauty Parlor

And Other Queer Spaces in and around the Bible [Paperback]

by Stephen D. Moore

    • Author

      Stephen D. Moore

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Stanford University Press

    • Published

      September 2002

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    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 apparent paean to male-female love became a pretext for literary cross-dressing for legions of male Jewish and Christian commentators; Jesus face and physique in relation to ideologies of beauty, ranging from the patristic era, when the earthly Jesus was regularly represented as ugly, to the contemporary global culture industry, with its trademark equation of looks with worth; the gendered and sexual substratum of Paul s doctrine of salvation embedded in his most influential epistle not least his gendering of righteousness as masculine and sin as feminine; and the intimate imbrication of masculinity and mass death in Revelation, a book about war making men making war-making men ...some of whom also happen to be gods.

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    • Author

      Stephen D. Moore

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Stanford University Press

    • Published

      September 2002

    • Weight

      509g

    • Page Count

      368

    • Dimensions

      160 x 235 x 23 mm

    • ISBN

      9780804743327

    • ISBN-10

      0804743320

    • Eden Code

      1194603

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    • Author/Creator: Stephen D. Moore

    • ISBN: 9780804743327

    • Publisher: Stanford University Press

    • Release Date: September 2002

    • Weight: 509g

    • Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 23 mm

    • Eden Code: 1194603


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