Provoking Religion

Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvAnthony M. Petro,Boston University) Petro, Anthony M. (Associate Professor of Religion and of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Associate Professor of Religion and of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

449 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

In the late twentieth century, artists were on the front lines of the culture wars. Leaders of the Christian Right in the U.S. made a national spectacle out of feminist and queer art, blasting it as sacrilegious or pornographic--and sometimes both. On the bully pulpits of television and talk radio, as well as in the halls of Congress, conservatives denounced artists ranging from Robert Mapplethorpe and Judy Chicago to Marlon Riggs and David Wojnarowicz. Conservatives, alarmed by shifting sex and gender norms, collided with progressive artists who were confronting sexism, homophobia, and racism. In Provoking Religion, Anthony Petro offers a compelling new history of the culture wars that places competing moralities of gender and sexuality alongside competing visions of the sacred. The modern culture wars, he shows, are best understood not as contests pitting religious conservatives against secular activists, but as a series of ongoing historical struggles to define the relationship between the sacred and the political.Through captivating case studies of "subversive" artists, Provoking Religion illuminates the underside of the culture wars, revealing how progressive artists and activists rendered from those most apparently profane aspects of human life-the stuff of conservatives' worst nightmares--their own haunting visions of the sacred.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-08-18
Mått168 x 237 x 27 mm
Vikt626 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190938437

Tillhör följande kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Litteraturteori inom Skonlitteratur

Anthony M. Petro is Associate Professor of Religion and of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. His first book, After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American Religion, was a finalist for the Religion Newswriters Association's book award for nonfiction. An early chapter from this book also won the 2012 LGBTQ Religious History Award from the LGBTQ Religious Archives Network. In 2019-2020, Petro was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

Introduction: Inventing the Culture Wars1: The Queer Lives of Religious Forms: Bob Flanagan's Crip Catholicism2: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party: Feminist Religion and the Literalism of Sex3: Wojnarowicz/Wildmon: Between Queer Imagination and the Aesthetics of Literalism4: Ray Navarro's Jesus Camp, AIDS Activist Video, and the 'New Anti-Catholicism'5: Renée Cox's Catholicism, Family Values, and the Politics of OffenseAfterword: Resurrecting David

Anthony Petro's robustly interdisciplinary Provoking Religion expertly reimagines the terms and tactics of the Culture Wars. Revealing how the late-twentieth-century battle narrative pivoted around a divide managed by White Christian conservatives, their oppositional claims to "moral authority," and the reductive vise of their "literalist aesthetics," Petro illuminates the religion(s) and plural complexities and communities of the largely queer and feminist artists the wars staged as uniformly “secular.” Impressively innovative and smart, Provoking Religion issues a timely clarion in the literatures on religion and art, and well beyond.” Sally Promey, author of Religion in Plain View: Public Aesthetics of American Display

Mer från samma författare

After the Wrath of God

Anthony M. Petro, Brown University) Petro, Anthony M. (Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's, Gender, and SExuality Studies, Assistant Professor of Religion and Women's, Gender, and SExuality Studies

Häftad

349 kr