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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
A Note on Translations
Introduction: No Past? Theology, Race, and Queer Theory’s Authorized Genealogies
Like a Prayer
Have We Ever Been Secular?
The Freedom of a Christian versus Babylonian Captivity
This Book
1. The Queerness of Christian Faith
Things Unseen
Paulus = “Small”
Augustine and the Failure of Conversion
A Thousand Turns: Petrarch’s Infidelities
2. The Color of Monogamy
Queer Theory, Classical Philosophy, Christian Theology
The Invention of Monogamy
Friendship, Homonormativity, and Whiteness
Sweet Little Lies
Lascivious Grace
3. The Shame of Conjugal Sex
Saint Paul versus the US Supreme Court
A Hospital for Incurables
Procreation and the Dilemma of Orgasm
Due Benevolence
4. The Optimism of Infidelity: Divorce and Adultery
Free Love
The Divine Touch of Divorce
Public (In)Fidelity
Love Hurts
Race and the Romance of Adultery
5. On Erotic Accountability
Unforgivable Debts
Failed Confession
Communion and Contagion
Caritas (or, Indifference)
Coda: The Pressure to Commit: Professionalism, Periodization, Affect
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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