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A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive

A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive

Hardcover

Series: T&t Clark Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0567707938
ISBN13: 9780567707932
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: Jun 27 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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