Setting the Table Anew. Queering the Lord’s Supper in Contemporary Art

Mariecke van den Berg

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70211-7_12

Setting the Table Anew. Queering the Lord’s Supper in Contemporary Art

Mariecke van den Berg

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Mariecke van den Berg presents a case study of the possibilities for not merely accommodating the LGBTQ+ community within mainstream churches but of queering theological beliefs and liturgical practices (‘Setting the Table Anew: Queering the Lord’s Supper in Contemporary Art’). She explores the queer potential of the exhibition Ecce Homo (1998)—and in particular the work The Last Supper—by Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson. Van den Berg investigates the queer potential of The Last Supper by bringing into dialogue the ‘ordinary theology’ of the participants in the debate and queer theological insights that were developed in the two decades since the exhibition was first shown.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Approaches in History and Theology to Same-Sex Love and Desire
Editors	Mark D. Chapman, Dominic Janes
Place of Publication	Hamsphire
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	12
Pages	227-248
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319702117
ISBN (Print)	9783319702100, 9783319889047
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70211-7_12
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Name	Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN (Print)	2730-9479
ISSN (Electronic)	2730-9487

Funding

This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) under Grant 327-25-004 and is part of the research project ‘Contested Privates: The Oppositional Pairing of Religion and Homosexuality in Contemporary Public Discourse in the Netherlands’ (Amsterdam Center for the Study of Lived Religion and Utrecht Chair of Religion and Gender). The author wishes to thank Elisabeth Ohlson for the use of her photographs, and the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights (RFSL) for the use of its press archive.

Funders	Funder number
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	327-25-004

Keywords

Queer
Art
Lord's Supper
Sweden
Ecce Homo
Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin
queer theology
eucharist

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New Approaches in History and Theology to Same-Sex Love and Desire. ed. / Mark D. Chapman; Dominic Janes. Hamsphire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 227-248 (Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)).

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