Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition

by Melissa E. Sanchez

Book Overview

Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association

Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts

Putting 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479840866
• ISBN13: 9781479840861
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"