Divine Dialectics: Queer Temporality and the Body Politics of the Christian Right
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2023-05
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The Ohio State University
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This study is concerned with the Christian Right's attacks on LGBTQIA+ rights and access to reproductive health care, which have grown in intensity in the time since the January 6th insurrection. Simultaneously, the rise in Christian nationalism and far-right extremism further contributes to the current political tensions in America. This study explains the dangers of these trends and investigates the underlying beliefs that support them. It argues that the body politics of the Christian Right are supported by core ideas about gender that are derived from a selective reading of the faith. By rooting its analysis in the high Middle Ages, this study demonstrates how Christian understandings of gender have always existed on a spectrum and highlights the ways in which divine embodiment has historically challenged binary understandings of gender.
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christianity, medieval, LGBTQIA, queer, Christian Right, middle ages, gender