Here is an eye-opening look at the traditions of various religions and their edicts concerning gay sex. This book examines the origins of religious directives involving homosexuality--whether forbidden, tolerated, or mandatory--and establishes a link between theology, sex roles, and masculinity. Suggesting that gay rights can be understood as a freedom of religion issue, the book draws a parallel between homosexuality and religion.
Here is an eye-opening look at the traditions of various religions and their edicts concerning gay sex. This book examines the origins of religious directives involving homosexuality--whether forbidden, tolerated, or mandatory--and establishes a link between theology, sex roles, and masculinity. Suggesting that gay rights can be understood as a freedom of religion issue, the book draws a parallel between homosexuality and religion.
* Preface * Acknowledgments * Chapter 1. Straight Thinking on Some Not-So-Straightforward Matters * Getting Our Bearings * How Shall We Think of Religion? * What of Homosexuality? * Chapter 2. Holy Homosexuality: Of Men and Semen * The Sambians of Papua New Guinea: It Will Make a Man of You * The Taoists of Ancient China and the Preservation of Life * Chapter 3. Holy Homoeroticism: Splendid Men and Splendor Divine * Plato and the World of Ancient Athens * The Platonism of Islamic Sufism * Chapter 4. Holy Effeminacy: The Native American Berdache As Living War Charm * Men and Manhood * Berdaches: Third-Gendered Persons or Unmanned Men? * Chapter 5. Holy Homophobia in the Hebrew Scriptures * Homophobia and the Fear of Exile * The Fear of Death: Anal Intercourse As Unsafe Sex * The Fear of Disorder: Homosexual Sex As Deformity * Alien Worship, Enemy Ways in War * Whose Body Is It Anyway? * Chapter 6. Early Christianity: A Revolution Aborted? * Paul: Food, Sex, Sin, and Taste * Augustine of Hippo: Sex, Homosexuality, Faith, and Death * Chapter 7. The Variegated Lotus: Homosexual Sex and Historical Buddhism * The Nirvanic Transcendence of Desire * Enlightenment and Homosexual Sex in Japan and Tibet * Chapter 8. Struggles on the American Front * A Gay Agenda? And the Social Good * Gay Rights As a Freedom of Religion Issue * The Spiritual Challenge of Contemporary Homophile Movements * Toward a New Poetic of Masculinity * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Preface * Acknowledgments * Chapter 1. Straight Thinking on Some Not-So-Straightforward Matters * Getting Our Bearings * How Shall We Think of Religion? * What of Homosexuality? * Chapter 2. Holy Homosexuality: Of Men and Semen * The Sambians of Papua New Guinea: It Will Make a Man of You * The Taoists of Ancient China and the Preservation of Life * Chapter 3. Holy Homoeroticism: Splendid Men and Splendor Divine * Plato and the World of Ancient Athens * The Platonism of Islamic Sufism * Chapter 4. Holy Effeminacy: The Native American Berdache As Living War Charm * Men and Manhood * Berdaches: Third-Gendered Persons or Unmanned Men? * Chapter 5. Holy Homophobia in the Hebrew Scriptures * Homophobia and the Fear of Exile * The Fear of Death: Anal Intercourse As Unsafe Sex * The Fear of Disorder: Homosexual Sex As Deformity * Alien Worship, Enemy Ways in War * Whose Body Is It Anyway? * Chapter 6. Early Christianity: A Revolution Aborted? * Paul: Food, Sex, Sin, and Taste * Augustine of Hippo: Sex, Homosexuality, Faith, and Death * Chapter 7. The Variegated Lotus: Homosexual Sex and Historical Buddhism * The Nirvanic Transcendence of Desire * Enlightenment and Homosexual Sex in Japan and Tibet * Chapter 8. Struggles on the American Front * A Gay Agenda? And the Social Good * Gay Rights As a Freedom of Religion Issue * The Spiritual Challenge of Contemporary Homophile Movements * Toward a New Poetic of Masculinity * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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