Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Gift that Dare not Speak its Name; 2 Between Subordination and Sympathy: Evangelical Christians, Masculinity and Gay Sexuality; 3 Common Pathways, Different Lives; 4 Bisexual Christians: The Life-Stories of a Marginalised Community; 5 Transgendering Christianity: Gender-Variant Christians as Visionaries; 6 Human Rights and Moral Wrongs: The Christian 'Gay Debate' in the Secular Sphere; 7 Christians and Gays in Northern Ireland; 8 Is it Meaningful to Speak of 'Queer Spirituality'?
Summary
In Contemporary Christianity and LGBT Sexualities rich empirical material is presented by a team of experts to constitute the first comprehensive sociological study of 'non-hetero' sexualities in relation to contemporary Christianity. It will appeal to sociologists, scholars of religion and theology as well as readers across a range of social sciences
