TY - BOOK AU - Sanchez,Melissa E. TI - Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition T2 - Sexual Cultures SN - 9781479871872 AV - HQ75.15 .S25 2020 U1 - 306.7601 23 PY - 2019///] CY - New York, NY : PB - New York University Press, KW - Promiscuity KW - Queer theory KW - Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Sexual minorities KW - RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies KW - bisacsh KW - Christian theology KW - Edmund Spenser KW - Francesco Petrarch KW - Jacques Lacan KW - John Calvin KW - John Donne KW - John Milton KW - Judith Butler KW - Martin Luther KW - Mary Wroth KW - Michel Foucault KW - Philip Sidney KW - Protestant Reformation KW - Protestantism KW - Renaissance lyric poetry KW - Saint Augustine KW - Saint Paul KW - William Shakespeare KW - adultery in literature KW - classical friendship KW - confession in literature KW - conversion in literature KW - devotional poetry KW - divorce in literature KW - forgiveness in literature KW - interiority KW - libertine poetry KW - lyric poetry KW - marriage in literature KW - marriage law KW - monogamy in literature KW - new materialism KW - paranoid reading KW - posthumanism KW - postsecularism KW - prayer in literature KW - promiscuity in literature KW - queer theory KW - race and poetry KW - religion and literature KW - reparative reading KW - sexual violence in literature KW - sexuality in literature KW - sonnet sequences KW - sonnets KW - theology in literature N1 - restricted access N2 - Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular textsPutting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of "history and tradition" suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? Queer Faith examines key works of the prehistory of monogamy-from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare-to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberation are themselves attached to nascent racial and economic hierarchies. Because discourses of fidelity and freedom are also discourses on racial and sexual positionality, excavating the complex historical entanglement of faith, race, and eroticism is urgent to contemporary queer debates about normativity, agency, and relationality.Deliberately unfaithful to disciplinary norms and national boundaries, this book assembles new conceptual frameworks at the juncture of secular and religious thought, political and aesthetic form. It thereby enlarges the contexts, objects, and authorized genealogies of queer scholarship. Retracing a history that did not have to be, Sanchez recovers writing that inscribes radical queer insights at the premodern foundations of conservative and heteronormative culture UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479834044 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479834044/original ER -