• Queer Consciousness and Religious Expression

    Author(s):
    Allan Savage (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Theology
    Subject(s):
    Religions, Gays, Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    theology
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/80gq-d983
    Abstract:
    As a new theory in the humanities and social studies, Queer Theory, as a broad theory encompassing any understanding that is anti-normativity and anti-fixed identity, is often applied to sexual matters. Whereas, others have discussed Queer Theory from the perspective of Identity Politics in sexual matters, I discuss Queer Theory from a phenomenological philosophical perspective. I take into consideration Katherine Johnson's caveat: "identity politics alone will not achieve the necessary impacts that are required to re-imagine the world we live in. Instead they are likely to win particular legislative reforms that regulate subjectivity, and rights that can easily be taken away under new regimes." Sexuality a Psychosocial Manifesto (Polity, 2015). In short, I suggest that Queer Theory needs a new philosophical understanding of the person, prior to a legal one, that will assist in re-imagining the world we live in.
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