Provoking Religion

Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars

Anthony M. Petro (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-093843-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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 Wars
1: The Queer Lives of Religious Forms: Bob Flanagan's Crip Catholicism
2: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party: Feminist Religion and the Literalism of Sex
3: Wojnarowicz/Wildmon: Between Queer Imagination and the Aesthetics of Literalism
4: Ray Navarro's Jesus Camp, AIDS Activist Video, and the 'New Anti-Catholicism'
5: Renée Cox's Catholicism, Family Values, and the Politics of Offense
Afterword: Resurrecting David

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	23 images
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 237 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	0-19-093843-9 / 0190938439
ISBN-13	978-0-19-093843-7 / 9780190938437
Zustand	Neuware