“It’s Queer Up in Here!”
Excess, Experience, and Performance in the Divinity Classroom
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v39i4.006Keywords:
Judith Butler, queer theory, pedagogy, divinity school, ministryAbstract
How is queer pedagogy already being performed in a Divinity school classroom? Using the work of Judith Butler and their own reflections as scholars in training, the authors describe how a queer pedagogy that refuses to split religious studies and theological studies is already at work in the Divinity classroom. The authors argue that the categories of excess, experience, and performance are categories in a queer pedagogy that refuses binaries. They conclude with two suggestions of queer pedagogical practice.
References
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Butler, Judith 1993 Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” New York: Routledge.
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King, Richard 1999 Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and ”the Mystic East.” New York: Routledge.
Butler, Judith 1993 Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” New York: Routledge.
----- 1997 The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Douglas, Mary 1991 Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution And Taboo. New ed. New York: Routledge.
King, Richard 1999 Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and ”the Mystic East.” New York: Routledge.
Published
2010-11-23
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How to Cite
Lassiter, K., & Tucker, A. (2010). “It’s Queer Up in Here!”: Excess, Experience, and Performance in the Divinity Classroom. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 39(4). https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v39i4.006
