Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	139
Title	Indecent Theologies, I: Perverting Grand Narratives
Date/Time	Monday 4 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
Sponsor	Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen
Organiser	David Carrillo-Rangel, Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen
	Sophie Sexon, School of Critical Studies (English Language & Linguistics), University of Glasgow
Moderator/Chair	C. Libby, Department of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Paper 139-a	Queer Exile: Orienting John the Evangelist in the Illustrated English Apocalypse (Language: English) Margaret Wilson, Department of History of Art, Ohio State University Index Terms: Art History - General; Biblical Studies; Gender Studies; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 139-b	Holy Bottoms and Heavy Balloons: Mysticism's Back Rooms (Language: English) David Carrillo-Rangel, Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier, Universitetet i Bergen Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Language and Literature - Other; Sexuality; Theology
Abstract	'Indecent Theology', as coined by Marcella Althaus-Reid (2000), is a theological perspective which radically perverts accepted doctrines in sex, gender, and politics and re-establishes their borders. Medieval and early modern theology and history becomes a place for prospective non-normative discourses because this affective theology disturbs the borders of decent, historical constructs, and indecent, to visualise otherness. In this session we aim at pervert Grand Narratives related to theology, mysticism, gender and race. 'Pervert' here in its original Latin meaning to overthrow, ['to turn, turn back, be turned; convert, transform, translate; be changed'] and therefore not to encounter hidden meanings in the margins.