Jewish/Christian/Queer

Crossroads and Identities

Frederick Roden

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781317110972
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

At a time when major branches of Judaism and most Christian denominations are addressing the relationship between religion and homosexuality, Jewish/Christian/Queer offers a unique examination of the similarities between the queer intersections of Judaism and Christianity, and the queer intersections of the homosexual and the religious. This volume investigates three forms of queerness; the rhetorical, theological and the discursive dissonance at the meeting points between Christianity and Judaism; the crossroads of the religious and the homosexual; and the intersections of these two forms of queerness, namely where the religiously queer of Jewish and Christian speech intersects with the sexually queer of religiously identified homosexual discourse. Including essays on literature and literary theory, Christian theology, Biblical, Rabbinic, and Jewish studies, queer theory, architecture, Freud, gay and lesbian studies and history, Jewish/Christian/Queer will have a truly interdisciplinary appeal.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Series Editors’ Preface: Cross-Identifications
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction Jewish/Christian/Queer: Crossroads and Identities
• 1 Paul on Exceeding Nature: Queer Gentiles and the Giddy Gardener
• 2 Sleeping with a Prophet: On the Erotic Adventures of Rabbi Meir
• 3 Convert Orthodoxies: The Case of Guillaume de Bourges
• 4 Anglican, Jewish and Pagan: The Queen Anne Churches as Queer Spaces
• 5 Jews, Geniuses and the Rewriting of National History: Benjamin Disraeli’s Biography of His Father
• 6 Bottoming for the Queen: Queering the Jews in Protestant Europe at the Fin de Siècle
• 7 Marc-Andre Raffalovich: A Russian-French-Jewish-Catholic Homosexual in Oscar Wilde’s London
• 8 “Next Easter in Rome”: Freud’s Queer Longing
• 9 Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: Questions of Morality and Identity During the Third Reich
• 10 “A Roller-coaster of a Life with Everything in it”: Pamela Frankau (1908–67)
• 11 Faith of Our Fathers as Blood Sacrifice: Judaic Recovery and the Broken Christian Body in Michael Arditti’s Easter and The Celibate
• Index