V. 1. Homosexuality in modern religious history. Introducing Queer Religion / Jay Emerson Johnson, Donald L. Boisvert -- Hinduism and Homosexuality / Ruth Vanita -- Queer Buddhists: Re-visiting Sexual Gender Fluidity / Robert Shore-Goss -- I'm Just Not That Kind of God: Queering Kabbalistic Gender Play / Jay Michaelson -- Islam and Discourses of Same-Sex Desire / Aisha Geissinger -- Same-Sex Desire in Early Christianity / Carly Daniel-Hughes -- Soul Work: Developing a Black LGBT Liberation Theology / Roland Stringfellow -- Searching for Gender-Variant East African Spiritual Leaders, from Missionary Discourse to Middle Course / Jojo (Kenneth Hamilton) -- Bottoming for the Queen: Queering the Jews in Protestant Europe at the Fin de Siecle / Steven Lapidus -- Whitman's Church of Comradeship: Same-Sex Love, Religion, and the Marginality of Friendship / Juan A. Herrero-Brasas -- Leathermen: Sexuality and Spirituality / Thomas V. Peterson -- One Gay Man's Trinitarian Faith / Ronald E. Long -- Reflections on a Queer Life / Elisabeth Hummel -- Writing the Spirit: Testimony and the Unauthorized Voice in the Queer Spiritual Memoir / Victor Marsh. v. 2. LGBT movements and queering religion. Introduction to Volume II / Jay Emerson Johnson -- Becoming Undone and Becoming Human: Sexual and Religious Selves in the Thought of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler / John Blevins -- Erotic Conversion: Coming Out of Christian Erotophobia / Paul J. Gorrell -- Lesbian Feminist Pioneers in Religion / Mary E. Hunt -- Listening to the Passion of Catholic nu-tongzhi: Developing a Catholic Lesbian Feminist Theology in Hong Kong / Lai-shan Yip -- Man-Boy and Daddy-God: A Sacred S/M Reading of Ezekiel's Call to Prophecy / David Dunn Bauer -- Sadomasochism and Spirituality: A Queerly Religious Challenge to the Gay Marriage Paradigm / Patrick Califia -- Not Just a Phase: Single Black Women in the Black Church / Kuukua Dzigbordi Yomekpe -- What Race is Your Sex? / Laurel C. Schneider -- Toward a Queer Theology of Flourishing: Transsexual Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Moral Agency / Jakob Hero -- The Bakla: Gendered Religious Performance in Filipino Cultural Spaces / Michael Sepidoza Campos -- Of Bodily Anamnesis: Postcolonial, Queer, Religious Analysis / Heike Peckruhn -- God, Sex, and Popular Culture: The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Lady Gaga / Richard Lindsay -- Queer Theory and the Study of Religion / Melissa M. Wilcox.
Summary:
This ground-breaking and eye-opening book examines the intersections of religion and same-sex desire, from St. Augustine to Hinduism to contemporary LGBT and queer culture.
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