A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive (T&T Clark Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics) - Softcover

Ambrose, Elyse

 
9780567707925: A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive (T&T Clark Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics)

Synopsis

In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of Blackqueerness as an authoritative source for religious ethical reflection. This approach counters the disintegrative norms of anti-Black and anti-body traditionalism in Christian sexual ethics, even those that strive to be liberative. It builds upon a tradition of Black queer and LGBTQ+-centered critique at the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and religion through exploring the moral imagination of sexual and gender non-conformist communities in 1920's Harlem (their rent parties, blues environments, and Hamilton Lodge Ball); ethics and theology blackqueering the disciplines; and contemporary oral histories (including photographs of the subjects by the scholar-artist) of those doing ethics in their Blackqueerness. These serve as integrative sites that signal Blackqueer ethical counter-patterns of communal belonging, individual and collective becoming, goodness, embodied spirit/inspirited bodies, and shared thriving. Emphases on both personal and social right-relatedness mark a shift from Christian sexual ethics based on rules, toward a communal relations-based transreligious ethics of sexuality.

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About the Authors

Elyse Ambrose is Assistant Professor of the Study of Religion and Black Study at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

Monique Moultrie is Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Religious studies at Georgia State University, USA.

Kate Ott is Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Director of the Stead Center for Ethics and Value at Garret-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA.

Darryl W. Stephens teaches ministerial ethics at Lancaster Theological Seminary, Moravian University, in Pennsylvania, USA

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9780567707932: Blackqueer Sexual Ethics, A: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive (T&T Clark Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics)

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