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 |
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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.
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Genre/Form |
Comparative studies.
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Author |
Comstock, Gary David, 1945-
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Henking, Susan E., 1955-
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LC no. |
96032505 |
ISBN |
0826409245 |
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9780826409249 |
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