Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-432) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion: Gay religion as a cultural production / The gay God of the city: the emergence of the gay and lesbian ethnic parish / R. Marie Griffith. Reconciling congregations bridging gay and straight communities / Wendy Cadge -- No longer an oxymoron: integrating gay and lesbian Seventh-day Adventist identities / René Drumm -- Negotiating a religious identity: the case of the gay evangelical / Scott Thumma -- Why join a gay synagogue? / Moshe Shokeid -- Latter-day Saint lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered spirituality / Richley H. Crapo -- Sexuality and gender in Santería: LGBT identities at the crossroads of Santería religious practices and beliefs / Salvador Vidal-Ortiz -- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual Buddhist practitioners / Wendy Cadge -- Shades of grey or back to nature? The enduring qualities of ex-gay ministries / Christy M. Ponticelli -- II. Subaltern/sectarian expressions. Pluralism and diversity: music as discourse and information in a gay and lesbian congregation / W. Bernard Lukenbill -- "St. Gerard teaches him that love cancels that out": devotion to St. Gerard Maiella among Italian American Catholic gay men in Newark, New Jersey / Peter Savastano -- A religion of one's own: gender and LGBT religiosities / Melissa M. Wilcox -- Liberation in truth: African American lesbians reflect on religion, spirituality, and their church / Aryana Bates -- Utopian imaginaries and faerie practice: mapping routes of relational agency / Jay Hasbrouck -- Queering the dragonfest: changing sexualities in a post-patriarchal religion / Mary Jo Neitz -- III. Popular expressions. The gospel hour: liminality, identity, and religion in a gay bar / Edward R. Gray and Scott Thumma -- Intermediaries: spirit and transcendence in a sample of "third-gendered" North Americans / Ingrid Sell -- Rite to party: circuit parties and religious experience / Paul J. Gorrell -- The Harvey Milk show: violence, desire, and gay popular culture / Edward R. Gray -- Gay men's spiritual experience in the leather community / Thomas V. Peterson -- The spirit within: gay male culture as a spiritual venue / Donald L. Boisvert -- Conclusion: Gay religion as a cultural production / R. Marie Griffith.
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