Unsettling Science and Religion

Lisa Stenmark teaches humanities and comparative religious studies at San Jose State University. Whitney Bauman is associate professor of religious studies at Florida International University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionLisa Stenmark and Whitney Bauman 1. Both/And: Science, Religion, and the Fluidity of IdentityPhilip Clayton and Kirianna Florez2. If You Quare It You Can Change It: Changing the Boxes That Bind UsEmilie M. Townes3. Thinking through Three Revolutions: Religion, Science and ColonialismLisa Stenmark4. Queering Authority in Science and ReligionWhitney Bauman5. Polyamorous Bastards: James Baldwin and Desires of a Queer African-American Religious NaturalismCarol Wayne White6. Slenderman: A Trans Hermeneutic of the ApocalypseTeresa Hornsby7. ‘Nothing in This World is Indifferent to Us’: A Dialogical Reflection on the Queerness of Theology and ScienceCatherine Keller and Laurel Schneider8. Queering the Dissident Body: Race, Sex, and Disability in Rabbinic Blessings on Bodily DifferenceJulia Watts Belser9. ‘Adam is Not Man: The Queer Body before Genesis 2:22 (and after)Zairong Xiang10. Gender and Indeterminacy in Jewish Mystical Imagery Fern Feldman11. Toward a Bright and Messy Future: The Global Ecological Crisis, the Problem of Heteronormative Bias, and the Necessity of a Queer Ecological ImaginationAlex Carr Johnson12. Queering the Library of CongressCarlos FernandezPetrichor: An AfterwordTimothy MortonAnnotated BibliographyAbout the Contributors

Unsettling Science and Religion is a volume eager to be useful to teachers and researchers. The introductory materials contain an overview of the scholars most frequently drawn on by the contributors, a brief intellectual history of the volume’s major areas, and promptings for what direction the conversation is, and should continue, developing in. The contribution of each author is summarized by the editors at the beginning, and in the afterword by Morton, and here again in this review, giving each author and reader ample opportunity to see how the work has been glossed. Each short chapter has a substantial bibliography, and the collection closes with an annotated bibliography that will be useful to readers trying to choose from among the wealth of resources suggested throughout.