IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 139: Indecent Theologies, I: Perverting Grand Narratives
Monday 4 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organisers: | David Carrillo-Rangel, Institut de Recerca de Cultures Medievals (IRCVM), Universitat de Barcelona Sophie Conaghan-Sexon, School of Critical Studies (English Language), University of Glasgow |
| Moderator/Chair: | C. Libby, Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University |
| Paper 139-a | Queer Exile: Orienting John the Evangelist in the Illustrated English Apocalypse (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Biblical Studies, Gender Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 139-b | Holy Bottoms and Heavy Balloons: Mysticism's Back Rooms (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Other, Sexuality, Theology |
| Abstract | 'Indecent Theology', as coined by Marcella Althaus-Reid (2000), is a theological perspective which radically perverts accepted doctrines in sex, gender, and politics and re-establishes their borders. Medieval and early modern theology and history becomes a place for prospective non-normative discourses because this affective theology disturbs the borders of decent, historical constructs, and indecent, to visualise otherness. In this session we aim at pervert Grand Narratives related to theology, mysticism, gender and race. 'Pervert' here in its original Latin meaning to overthrow, ['to turn, turn back, be turned; convert, transform, translate; be changed'] and therefore not to encounter hidden meanings in the margins. |