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Unsettling Science and Religion

Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies
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This book borrows from the intellectual labor of queer theory in order to unsettle-or "queer"-the discourses of "religion" and "science," and, by extension, the "science and religion discourse." Drawing intellectual and social cues from works by influential theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Eve Sedgwick, chapters in this volume converge on at least three common features of queer theory. First, queer theory challenges givens that on occasion still undergird religiously and scientifically informed ways of thinking. Second, it takes embodiment seriously. Third, this engagement inevitably generates new pathways for thinking about how religious and scientific "truths" matter. These three features ultimately lend support to critical investigations into the meanings of "science" and "religion," and the relationships between the two.
Acknowledgments Introduction Lisa Stenmark and Whitney Bauman 1. Both/And: Science, Religion, and the Fluidity of Identity Philip Clayton and Kirianna Florez 2. If You Quare It You Can Change It: Changing the Boxes That Bind Us Emilie M. Townes 3. Thinking through Three Revolutions: Religion, Science and Colonialism Lisa Stenmark 4. Queering Authority in Science and Religion Whitney Bauman 5. Polyamorous Bastards: James Baldwin and Desires of a Queer African-American Religious Naturalism Carol Wayne White 6. Slenderman: A Trans Hermeneutic of the Apocalypse Teresa Hornsby 7. `Nothing in This World is Indifferent to Us': A Dialogical Reflection on the Queerness of Theology and Science Catherine Keller and Laurel Schneider 8. Queering the Dissident Body: Race, Sex, and Disability in Rabbinic Blessings on Bodily Difference Julia Watts Belser 9. `Adam is Not Man: The Queer Body before Genesis 2:22 (and after) Zairong Xiang 10. Gender and Indeterminacy in Jewish Mystical Imagery Fern Feldman 11. Toward a Bright and Messy Future: The Global Ecological Crisis, the Problem of Heteronormative Bias, and the Necessity of a Queer Ecological Imagination Alex Carr Johnson 12. Queering the Library of Congress Carlos Fernandez Petrichor: An Afterword Timothy Morton Annotated Bibliography About the Contributors
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