LEADER 04626nam 2200925 450 001 9910789373903321 005 20230120124448.0 010 $a0-8232-5736-3 010 $a0-8232-5734-7 010 $a0-8232-5737-1 010 $a0-8232-6136-0 010 $a0-8232-5735-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823257379 035 $a(CKB)3710000000094279 035 $a(EBL)3239885 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001184526 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12512973 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184526 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11191641 035 $a(PQKB)11111827 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000862639 035 $a(DE-B1597)555169 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823257379 035 $a(OCoLC)878144608 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58927 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239885 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852129 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL727801 035 $a(OCoLC)923764383 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239885 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1741700 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4704833 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000094279 100 $a20140329h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Babylon complex $etheopolitical fantasies of war, sex, and sovereignty /$fErin Runions 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-96519-6 311 0 $a0-8232-5733-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Babylon and the Crisis of Sovereignty --$t1. From Babel to Biopolitics: Josephus, Theodemocracy, and the Regulation of Plea sure --$t2. Bellicose Dreams: Babylon and Exception to Law --$t3. Tolerating Babel: Biopolitics, Film, and Family --$t4. Revenge on Babylon: Literalist Allegory, Scripture, Torture --$t5. Who Lives in Babylon? The Gay Antichrist as Political Enemy --$t6. Babelian Scripture: A Queerly Sublime Ethics of Reading --$tPostlude: Roads to Babel --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aBabylon is a surprisingly multivalent symbol in U.S. culture and politics. Political citations of Babylon range widely, from torture at Abu Ghraib to depictions of Hollywood glamour and decadence. In political discourse, Babylon appears in conservative ruminations on democratic law, liberal appeals to unity, Tea Party warnings about equality, and religious advocacy for family values. A composite biblical figure, Babylon is used to celebrate diversity and also to condemn it, to sell sexuality and to regulate it, to galvanize war and to worry about imperialism. Erin Runions explores the significance of these shifts and contradictions, arguing that together they reveal a theopolitics that tries to balance the drive for U.S. dominance with the countervailing ideals and subjectivities of economic globalization. Examining the confluence of cultural formations, biblical interpretations, and (bio)political philosophies, The Babylon Complex shows how theopolitical arguments for war, sexual regulation, and political control both assuage and contribute to anxieties about waning national sovereignty. Theoretically sophisticated and engaging, this remarkable book complicates our understanding of how the Bible affects U.S political ideals and subjectivities. 606 $aChurch and state$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aChristian sociology$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aWar$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aSovereignty$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 607 $aBabylon (Extinct city)$xIn the Bible 610 $aBabel. 610 $aBabylon. 610 $aTheopolitics. 610 $abiopolitics. 610 $adetranscendentalize. 610 $aglobalization. 610 $aqueer theory. 610 $asexuality. 610 $atorture. 610 $aviolence. 615 0$aChurch and state$xHistory 615 0$aChristian sociology$xHistory 615 0$aWar$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aSovereignty$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 676 $a261.0973 700 $aRunions$b Erin$01524670 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789373903321 996 $aThe Babylon complex$93821572 997 $aUNINA