A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics

Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive

Professor Elyse Ambrose (University of California, Riverside, USA)

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English

T.& T.Clark Ltd
25 July 2024

Christianity; Christian theology; Social issues & processes; Gender studies, gender groups; Sexual behaviour

Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics

In A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive Elyse Ambrose looks to an archive of Blackqueerness as an authoritative source for religious ethical reflection. This approach counters the disintegrative norms of anti-Black and anti-body traditionalism in Christian sexual ethics, even those that strive to be liberative. It builds upon a tradition of Black queer and LGBTQ+-centered critique at the intersections of race, sexuality, gender, and religion through exploring the moral imagination of sexual and gender non-conformist communities in 1920’s Harlem (their rent parties, blues environments, and Hamilton Lodge Ball); ethics and theology blackqueering the disciplines; and contemporary oral histories (including photographs of the subjects by the scholar-artist) of those doing ethics in their Blackqueerness. These serve as integrative sites that signal Blackqueer ethical counter-patterns of communal belonging, individual and collective becoming, goodness, embodied spirit/inspirited bodies, and shared thriving. Emphases on both personal and social right-relatedness mark a shift from Christian sexual ethics based on rules, toward a communal relations-based transreligious ethics of sexuality.

By: Professor Elyse Ambrose (University of California Riverside USA)
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9780567707932
ISBN 10: 0567707938
Series: T&T Clark Enquiries in Embodiment, Sexuality, and Social Ethics
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 25 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Toward Blackqueer Possibility in/through Living Archive Chapter 1 Examining the Integrative in Blackqueer Harlem Chapter 2 Blackqueering of Ethical and Theological Discourse Chapter 3 Spirit in the Dark Body - Blackqueer Expressions of the Im/material Chapter 4 Constructing a Blackqueer Ethics of Sexuality Epilogue Bibliography Index

Elyse Ambrose is Assistant Professor of the Study of Religion and Black Study at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

Reviews for A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive

Elyse Ambrose takes the reader on a journey through Harlem in the 1920's and 30's to what are referred to as living archives, pictures and interviews with blackqueer folk today. This journey is about the expansion of ethics in relation to black bodies, moving them from bodies that have been alienated and problematized to the centre of the creation of ethics coming from the blackqueer communities. Along the way Ambrose dismantles patriarchy, white centric thinking and calls to account the black churches and theologians who have not been as inclusive as they should have been. At its heart it is a book that declares love to be political and ethics to be a process set in multiple communities. It is a book that celebrates the divine within blackness, blackqueerness, a work to be embraced not just read. * Lisa Isherwood, The University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK * In this hopeful and wise book Elyse Ambrose argues what might happen if ethicists take seriously blackqueer experience. She observes that such consideration would lead people to see the communal consequences for sexual lives and to measure our commons by how people are doing rather than what they are doing. This is a proposal of better sex for a better society. Now more than ever students and scholars need to hear this clarion call. * Kathryn Lofton, Yale University, USA *