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Introduction: Religion, Nature, and Queer Theory

  • Daniel T. Spencer (author)
Chapter of: Meaningful Flesh: Reflections on Religion and Nature for a Queer Planet(pp. 15–21)

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TitleIntroduction
SubtitleReligion, Nature, and Queer Theory
ContributorDaniel T. Spencer (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0194.1.03
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/meaningful-flesh-reflections-on-religion-and-nature-for-a-queer-planet/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightSpencer, Daniel T.
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2018-01-16
Long abstractIn 1989 I began doctoral work at Union Theological Seminary to integrate insights from ecology, liberation theologies, and ecofeminism — what eventually emerged was my book, Gay and Gaia: Ethics, Ecology and the Erotic. I now welcome this oppor-tunity to look back at how the emerging intersections among religion, nature, culture, and sexuality in the 1980s and 1990s shaped those reflections, and to look forward to the insights of a new generation of queer scholars of religion.Trained as a geologist who came late to theology and ethics, my intuitions about this intersection began to form in college when I studied volcanoes in Costa Rica in 1978 as a deeply clos-eted gay man. Here I was exposed to human rights issues and poverty, exacerbated by the many civil wars engulfing Costa Ri-ca’s neighbors. I first enrolled at Union in 1980 to try to address the many theoethical issues that my time in Central America and my closeted sexuality were raising, having little inclination then how deeply intertwined the answers would become. Hav-ing recently come out to family and friends, I returned to Costa Rica in 1982 to study liberation theology. I spent my weekends working with refugee children from El Salvador, displaced from their homelands by the combination of military violence and ecological degradation from the scorched earth tactics of us-sponsored counterinsurgency tactics. Coming to terms with my own gay identity has therefore always been deeply intertwined with my love of the earth and its diverse ecosystems and my commitment to social justice for the poor and exploited.
Page rangepp. 15–21
Print length7 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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