Queer Fish: Christian Unreason From Darwin To Derrida

At some point in the nineteenth century God died, the world grew secular, and Christianity became oppositional, irrational, odd, even queer - or so the story goes. To explore this narrative, John Schad offers a suitably odd or ´unreasonable´ history of what Michel Foucault once called ´Christian unreason´. This proves, in part, to be an unlikely, or uncanny history of Christian involvement in such radical movements and developments as Anarchism, Surrealism, the Absurd, deconstruction, and even quantum physics. It also proves to be a dark and guilty history of Christian involvement in such terrible things and events as slavery, forced conversion, Fenian bombs, the Great War, the Holocaust, and even Hiroshima.