Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- List of Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- Ms.Calculating the Apocalypse
- The Apocalyptic, Gender and American Christian Fundamentalism
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Dare? Confronting Anti-abortion Terrorism after 9/11
- Apocalyptus Interruptus: Christian Fundamentalists, Sodomy, and The End
- The Joy of (Apocalyptic) Sex
- ‘The Second Descent of the Spirit of Life from God’: The Assumption of Jemima Wilkinson
- Making Space, Taking Space: The Dynamics of 1980s Peace Activist Women's Efforts to Reclaim and Transform the Public Arena
- ‘Before, the Cup Was Filling Up. Now It Is Flowing Over’: The Eschatology of Fluids
- Visions of Mary, Wounds of Christ: Women Stigmatics in the Apocalyptic Piety of Recent Marian Apparitions
- Rhetoric of the Rejected Body at ‘Heaven's Gate’
- Eccentric Citizens: Subjectivity and Citizenship in the Technomillennium
- Index
The Joy of (Apocalyptic) Sex
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- List of Contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- Ms.Calculating the Apocalypse
- The Apocalyptic, Gender and American Christian Fundamentalism
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Dare? Confronting Anti-abortion Terrorism after 9/11
- Apocalyptus Interruptus: Christian Fundamentalists, Sodomy, and The End
- The Joy of (Apocalyptic) Sex
- ‘The Second Descent of the Spirit of Life from God’: The Assumption of Jemima Wilkinson
- Making Space, Taking Space: The Dynamics of 1980s Peace Activist Women's Efforts to Reclaim and Transform the Public Arena
- ‘Before, the Cup Was Filling Up. Now It Is Flowing Over’: The Eschatology of Fluids
- Visions of Mary, Wounds of Christ: Women Stigmatics in the Apocalyptic Piety of Recent Marian Apparitions
- Rhetoric of the Rejected Body at ‘Heaven's Gate’
- Eccentric Citizens: Subjectivity and Citizenship in the Technomillennium
- Index
Summary
The biblical God is the supreme embodiment of hegemonic hypermasculinity, and as such the object of universal adoration.
(Moore 1996: 139)Of Love and War
The Apocalypse of John's canonical status gives it a special religious and cultural power. This story of the end of the world describes the suffering of both good and evil people, along with an escalating violence brought by the opening of seven seals. God prevails in the end, and the true faithful dwell for a thousand years in the city of God. What is revealed is the formula for eternal success and life. God defeats the powers of evil and reigns forever, and only the believers are part of this glorious future.
In my earlier works (1992 and 1999) I examined my own uneasiness with this formula for eternity. There is so much destruction—of lives and of the earth—that I find the sounds and scenes overwhelming. And I find this Christian version of how the world ends very disturbing. This book troubles me in different ways than it troubled the Eastern churches in the fourth century CE or Martin Luther in the Protestant Reformation. The problems of holy war, ecocide (destruction of the natural world), gynocide (destruction of women), and the portrayal of the deities as wrathful powers just will not go away. I continue to see the Apocalypse as a misogynist (woman-hating) male fantasy of the end of time (1992: 105).
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- Gender and Apocalyptic Desire , pp. 64 - 75Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2006