In the World, But Not of The World: Disidentification and the Evangelical Right

Coakley, Benjamin

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In the World, But Not of The World: Disidentification and the Evangelical Right

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Coakley, Benjamin

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Dichiarazione dei diritti

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José Esteban Muñoz used the term disidentification to describe the way queer people of color strategically engage with mainstream culture without either assimilating to it or rejecting it altogether. This paper uses Muñoz’s theory, in conjunction with the work of historians of evangelicalism and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, to demonstrate how the Evangelical Right is able to engage with the theological call to be “in the world, but not of the world” by perceiving itself as a marginalized subculture. The Evangelical Right developed in the late 1970s as evangelicals in the United States began to shift from a philosophy of fundamentalist separatism towards explicitly political activism by disidentifying with mainstream culture, working to engage with it and reform it for their own purposes. In making the parallels between Muñoz’s disidentification and evangelical history explicit, this paper argues that the methodological tools of queer theory offer a new frame for understanding the emergence of the Evangelical Right.

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