Thinking with Anthony Petro’s Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars (OUP, 2025)

This panel, co-sponsored by the Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit, the Gay Men and Religion Unit, and the Secularism and Secularity Unit, will celebrate and think with Anthony Petro’s new monograph, Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars (Oxford University Press, 2025). Featuring scholars interested in queer, gay, lesbian, feminist, and trans visual culture as well as twentieth-century American religious histories, the timeliness of Petro’s text and the conversations it generates cannot be overstated.