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This chapter challenges the tendency to homogenize diaspora through nationalist, ethnocentric, and heteronormative views and approaches. Discussing complex historical experiences and contested concepts of diaspora, it proposes a transnational and intersectional hermeneutical lens to engage diasporic characters, such as Aquila, Apollos, Paul, and Prisca/Pricilla, in Acts and Paul’s letters. Then, it showcases how they are constructed through ethnicization and sexualization and across spaces and boundaries—domestic, public, and national. In this reading, the diasporic, border-crossing figure Prisca emerges as disrupting nationalist body politics and the heteroreproductive diasporic future, which are inscribed in the biblical discourse and interpretation. Attending to how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, class, and labor intersect in spaces of diaspora, this transnational queer feminist reading illuminates Prisca’s subjectivity through her trajectory (homemaking) rather than her origin (homeland).
of rigour and provocation in scholarly works, and thus serves as the springboard from this volume’s project into others. So far I have focused primarily on assessing the coherence and scholarly importance of When Did We See You Naked? In closing I will also note its helpfulness for teaching, which is the kind of helpfulness that most edited volumes offer. Each essay can stand alone or could be assembled in groups, depending on a course topic and outcomes. Essays group geographically, in terms of their use of ethnography and other qualitative methods, in terms of feminist and womanist theology, and in terms of social theory. Rachel Starr’s chapter, ‘“Not Pictured”: What Veronica Mars Can Teach Us about the Crucifixion’, would be excellent in a course on visual or pop culture and theology. Nicola Slee’s ‘The Crucified Christa: A Re-evaluation’, is brilliant, and I will use it in any course I teach on feminist theology, soteriology and, particularly, theologies of embodiment moving forwards. Again, this book is not for hardened skeptics. It is not for those who responded to #MeToo with #NotAllMen. And I commend the editors and authors for not pandering to such a crowd. That the text is written for those of us who have experienced various forms of sexual assault and abuse, and our allies, is, to my mind, its key strength. It is time we had our own conversation without having to tone ourselves down to convince others to hear us. While it is important to note again that some voices that should be present are absent, a volume like this can inspire those who did make their way in to ensure the circle keeps widening to all the voices that have stories they are ready to share.
Book Review| January 01 2020 The Journal Letters, and Related Biographical Items of the Reverend Charles Wesley Baker, Frank, Heitzenrater, Richard, and Maddox, Randy, eds., The Journal Letters, and Related Biographical Items of the Reverend Charles Wesley. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2018. 466 pp. $74.99. John R. Tyson John R. Tyson Professor of Church History and Director of UMC Studies Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School Rochester, New York Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Methodist History (2020) 58 (1-2): 105–106. https://doi.org/10.5325/methodisthist.58.1-2.0105 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation John R. Tyson; The Journal Letters, and Related Biographical Items of the Reverend Charles Wesley. Methodist History 1 January 2020; 58 (1-2): 105–106. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/methodisthist.58.1-2.0105 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressMethodist History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2019/2020 by The Pennsylvania State University. All rights reserved.2019/2020The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.
