Reorienting Conversations: On Religious and Queer Discourses

• In Event: Curriculum of the Soul: Poetics of the Unknown

Abstract

This paper offers a conversation at the intersection of religious and queer discourses. The authors seek to think about and through the ways these discourses while steeped in discontent, dilemma, and difficulty, might also offer ways to reorient ourselves amidst twenty-first century educational realities. More to the point, the text puts queer histories and logics into conversations with theologies both approached in the vein of Ahmed’s (2006) notion of a “queer genealogy.” Such work, in the mixing of discourses often considered to be running on parallel lines (raging against one another, in ways long understood), might “open up new kinds of connection” through their “coming into contact” again in new ways (p. 155)

Authors

• Kevin J Burke, University of Georgia - Athens

• Adam Joseph Greteman, School of the Art Institute of Chicago