Stumbling Toward Ecstasy: Queer and (Trans)feminist Methods in the Study of Religion

This lec­ture offers a post­struc­tural­ist and psy­cho­an­a­lyt­ic cri­tique of the accu­sa­tion of con­fes­sion­al­ism, weav­ing religo­nists’ valu­able skills of empa­thet­ic under­stand­ing togeth­er with trans/queer/feminist schol­ars’ insis­tence on the locat­ed­ness of knowl­edge and on reflex­ive and embod­ied research meth­ods in order to con­tin­ue my cur­rent efforts to stum­ble halt­ing­ly toward an ecsta­t­ic method in the study of reli­gion.