Contested Masculinities

Polysemy and Gender in 1 Thessalonians

AvRobert Stegmann

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

In Contested Masculinities, the author argues for the importance of critical consciousness, and attentiveness to the interplay of the biblical text, context and the long, complex, histories of interpretation that play out in the construction of masculinities. Locating his reading of 1 Thessalonians within the thickly textured setting of a postcolonial, post-apartheid South Africa, the author seeks to recontextualize Paul, providing a nuanced understanding of how Paul’s letters exercise authority over both the church and the academy. The author maintains that attempts to frame either the biblical text or notions of masculinity as singular and universal perpetuate and reinforce binary formulations (church/academy, global north/global south, colonizer/colonized, male/female) and entrench hierarchies of power. The author re-reads 1 Thessalonians, exploring the fissures that come into view when training a postcolonial and gender-critical lens on the biblical text and delivers a refreshing account that is playful and open and porous, especially as a conversational piece for masculinity, ancient and contemporary.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-27
Mått:162 x 228 x 20 mm
Vikt:535 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793602862

Utforska kategorier

Biblar inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Robert Stegmann is educator, New Testament scholar, research fellow at Stellenbosch University and is a contributor to the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies.

Recensioner i media

Rob Stegmann employs gender-critical, postcolonial-inclined and contextual-aware lenses as he deftly works toward plotting out a polysemous yet bodily expressed Pauline masculinity in 1 Thessalonians in its socio-historical setting, deliberately encountering also the academy-church interface in South Africa and beyond…besides enriching, words like academically and personally engaging, committed and also honest and inviting, probably best describe this book!

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1: Reading Bodies, Reading Scripture in a Post-Apartheid South AfricaChapter 2: Male Bodiliness and Performance: Developing a Gender-Critical OpticChapter 3: Inscribing Relationships of Power: Developing a Postcolonial OpticChapter 4: Reading Bodies, Ancient and ContemporaryChapter 5: Interpretational Coordinates: Historical Markers for Reading 1 ThessaloniansChapter 6: A Gender-Critical, Postcolonial Reading of 1 ThessaloniansChapter 7: Masculinity, Biblical Texts and the Metaphors by which We LiveEpilogueBibliographyAbout the Author