Laurel C. Schneider
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277513
- eISBN:
- 9780823280483
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277513.003.0013
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This essay explores, in part, queer theory's queerness in relation to the religious (Christian) and ethnic (European) frame that largely produced it. Although affect and temporality theories offer ...
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This essay explores, in part, queer theory's queerness in relation to the religious (Christian) and ethnic (European) frame that largely produced it. Although affect and temporality theories offer important possibilities—finally—for queering Christian theology, I suggest that even these may not escape the ossifying tendencies of conceptual closure so dominant in the trajectories of European and Christian thought. Gerald Vizenor's (Anishinaabe) theory of survivance, developed out of a Native American "postindian" philosophical context, opposes settler colonial closures of "the Indian" and may help illuminate and break through queer theory's (and theology's) entrapping reliance on ethnic European concepts to work through persistent problems of identity, eschatology, and ontology.Less
This essay explores, in part, queer theory's queerness in relation to the religious (Christian) and ethnic (European) frame that largely produced it. Although affect and temporality theories offer important possibilities—finally—for queering Christian theology, I suggest that even these may not escape the ossifying tendencies of conceptual closure so dominant in the trajectories of European and Christian thought. Gerald Vizenor's (Anishinaabe) theory of survivance, developed out of a Native American "postindian" philosophical context, opposes settler colonial closures of "the Indian" and may help illuminate and break through queer theory's (and theology's) entrapping reliance on ethnic European concepts to work through persistent problems of identity, eschatology, and ontology.
Laurel C. Schneider
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823251551
- eISBN:
- 9780823252985
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823251551.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Theopoetics begins in poetry and ends in theology. It is a mode of theological analysis that enables critical evaluation and overcoming of the limits of mono-linear thought toward more robust ...
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Theopoetics begins in poetry and ends in theology. It is a mode of theological analysis that enables critical evaluation and overcoming of the limits of mono-linear thought toward more robust understandings of lived multiplicity. This chapter follows Gerald Vizenor's suggestive concepts of “native modernity” and “ontic significance” to highlight both the limits of monotheistic presuppositions of linearity and illuminate indigenous logics that make sense of creation as incarnation. In doing so it explores the pros and poetry of Joy Hajro as an example of narratives that disrupt linear and absolute logic.Less
Theopoetics begins in poetry and ends in theology. It is a mode of theological analysis that enables critical evaluation and overcoming of the limits of mono-linear thought toward more robust understandings of lived multiplicity. This chapter follows Gerald Vizenor's suggestive concepts of “native modernity” and “ontic significance” to highlight both the limits of monotheistic presuppositions of linearity and illuminate indigenous logics that make sense of creation as incarnation. In doing so it explores the pros and poetry of Joy Hajro as an example of narratives that disrupt linear and absolute logic.
