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Title |
Title of document |
3. Harvey Milk’s (Sexual and Sacred) Body - The Religious Body Imagined |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
William Gilders; Emory University; United States |
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Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
Harvey Milk; queer saint; sexual liberation; sacred body; relics; canonization; sexuality and religion |
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Subject classification |
Body and Religion |
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Description |
Abstract |
Harvey Milk, assassinated over forty years ago on November 27, 1978, is a queer saint. This paper, in the self-identifying voice of a gay man, will explore the significance of Harvey Milk’s cultural sanctity in relation to his sexual embodiment. It emphasizes that “Saint Harvey” was a leading figure in a movement of sexual liberation and was himself a strongly sexual being. These facts are sometimes downplayed in his representation as a sacred figure, which often focus on his dead body and its “relics” (such as his blood-stained clothing), over against his vitally sexual pre-assassination body. Examining the phenomenon of the “canonization” of a sexually embodied gay (Jewish) agnostic, this paper specifically asks “what happens when Milk’s sacralization is explicitly tied to his sexuality? Can a saint be a sexual being, not peripherally or incidentally, but centrally and essentially?” |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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15-Jun-2024 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/39647 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.39647 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Religious Body Imagined |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |