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Contested Masculinities
Polysemy and Gender in 1 Thessalonians
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2020
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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.
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2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0286-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0287-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
183
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
List of Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access
1 Reading Bodies, Reading Scripture in a Post-Apartheid South Africa No access Pages 1 - 24
2 Male Bodiliness and Performance No access Pages 25 - 56
3 Inscribing Relationships of Power No access Pages 57 - 84
4 Reading Bodies, Ancient and Contemporary No access Pages 85 - 106
5 Interpretational Coordinates No access Pages 107 - 122
6 A Gender-Critical, Postcolonial Reading of 1 Thessalonians No access Pages 123 - 152
7 Masculinity, Biblical Texts, and the Metaphors by Which We Live No access Pages 153 - 160
