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Title Que(e)rying religion : a critical anthology / edited by Gary David Comstock and Susan E. Henking
Published New York : Continuum, 1997

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Description 552 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Greek Homosexuality and Initiation -- Religious Boundaries and Sexual Morality -- The Effeminates of Early Medina -- We'Wha and Klah: The American Indian Berdache as Artist and Priest -- Discourses of Desire: Sexuality and Christian Women's Visionary Narratives -- Concepts, Experience, and Sexuality -- Foucault on Penance and the Shaping of Sexuality -- Warrior Virgins and Boston Marriages: Spinsterhood in History and Culture -- Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era -- Jewish Attitudes Towards Homosexuality: A Review of Contemporary Sources -- Gender -- Being It or Doing It? The Church, Homosexuality, and the Politics of Identity -- Radical Relatedness and Feminists Separatism -- Feminist Separatism -- The Dynamics of Self-Creation -- Pullen Memorial Baptist Church: An Inside Look at a Journey of Affirmation -- Tongues Untied: Memoirs of a Pentecostal Boyhood -- On My Journey Now -- Being Muslim and Gay -- Alone Again, Naturally: The Catholic Church and the Homosexual -- Accidents and Calculations -- Homosexuality, Mormon Doctrine, and Christianity: A Father's Perspective -- The Sacrality of Male Beauty and Homosex: A Neglected Factor in the Understanding of Contemporary Gay Life -- Male Cross-Gender Behavior in Myanmar (Burma): A Description of the Acault -- Transgenderism and the Cult of Yellamma: Heat, Sex, and Sickness in South Indian Ritual -- Religion as a Sociological Category -- Butch-Femme Relationships: Sexual Courage in the 1950s -- A Special Window: An Anthropological Perspective on Spirituality in Contemporary U.S. Gay Male Culture -- An Ancient Catholic: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez -- A Spirituality of Creative Marginality -- Reflections of Being Latina and Lesbian -- Just Friends -- Jewish Paper in San Diego Tackles a Difficult Subject -- Letter from Israel -- Religious Constructions of the AIDS Crisis -- The Compatibility of Reason and Orgasm in Tibetan Buddhism: Reflections on Sexual Violence and Homophobia -- Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians -- "And with a Male You Shall Not Lie the Lying Down of a Woman": On the Meaning and Significance of Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 -- Lesbian Mythology -- Women Partners in the New Testament -- A Gathering of Spirit
Summary Is it possible to be religious and to be gay, lesbian, or queer? Until recently, many persons would have said no. But over the past decade or so, a vast literature has emerged of personal narrative, apologetic, and polemic, asserting both the existence and acceptability of such dual identities. The book includes but moves beyond tradition-based experiential writing by turning to the academic study of religion. It compares or focuses on different traditions: forms of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Native American spiritualities. It also
Covers various areas and time periods. It questions the terms religion and religious themselves. Read together, it provide access to a broad selection of work of religious and lesbian/gay/queer studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-532)
Subject Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Comparative studies.
Genre/Form Comparative studies.
Author Comstock, Gary David, 1945-
Henking, Susan E., 1955-
LC no. 96032505
ISBN 0826409245
9780826409249
Other Titles Queering religion
Querying religion