Transdevotion: Race, Gender, and Christian Universalism.
This essay examines biblical and early modern discourses of Christian universalism promising the incorporation of racialized and gender-nonconforming believers. One such figure is the eunuch. In biblical and premodern thought, eunuchs would have brought together gender nonconformity and racialized d...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 94 - 116 |
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