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The Last Remant
Joshua Eugene Noah
其他書名
Pentecostal Salvation, Desire, and Queering the Holy Ghost Experience in the Rust Belt
出版University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2014
ISBN13039368959781303936890
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MP3WoQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Iconoclastic parishioners who gather at a Pentecostal church in Rust-Belt Indiana envision their movement to be the final piece of a reconfigured eschatological prophecy; this is a last-day revival that evangelicals have been anticipating for over two thousand years. Having been estranged by intolerance and misunderstanding of scripture, as the narrative goes, "God's gay children" are returning to the "Shepherd's fold." The predominately white and working-class congregation seeks a redefinition of what it means to be homosexual in the United States: persons not thought of simply for sexual desire but a shared normalcy with other moral Christians. Mainstream Pentecostals demonize the dubious movement as a perversion of the sacred, as evidence that they are living in the End of Days. In this dissertation I explore the innovative ways in which believers negotiate and coalesce their queer and Pentecostal identities as they entertain a spirit world and prepare for the Second Coming of Christ. Amidst the homophobia of mainstream evangelicals and the perceived moral dangers of queer America, the reconciled Pentecostals negotiate identity dissonance as they speak in tongues, cast out devils, become "slain in the Spirit," and dance as a Holy Ghost mounts their born-again bodies.