Will Roscoe

Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love is a passionate exploration of the history of Western religion as seen through the queer eye of one of the most widely acclaimed authors in gay spirituality. Drawing on recently discovered ancient sources, Will Roscoe offers a striking new view of Jesus as a charismatic mystic, whose teachings on love and the kingdom of heaven were complemented by a secret rite that served to impart the experience of entering heaven. After meticulously reconstructing this rite, Roscoe seeks its ultimate origins--an odyssey that eventually leads him to the margins of the inhabited world, where the ancient practices of shamanism survive to today. Whether discussing early Christianity, Plato's Symposium, the rites of shamans, or the myths of ancient Mesopotamia, Roscoe uncovers fresh insights at every turn. He builds a persuasive argument that mysticism and gay love are powerfully connected, and that this connection forms a hidden tradition in the history of Western religion. This new release updates references to substantiating information and reports on the response to those ideas in the decade since the book's first publication.

Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love won the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Spirituality/Religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Will Roscoe
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005334840
• Artikelnr.: 70044634

Autorenporträt

Will Roscoe received his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness/Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His first book, The Zuni Man-Woman (University of New Mexico Press) received the Margaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and a Lambda Literary Award. He has since published Queer Spirits: A Gay Men's Myth Book (Beacon) and Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder (Beacon) by Harry Hay. He is also co-editor of Islamic Homosexualities (New York University Press) and Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities (State University of New York Press) and coordinating editor of Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology (St. Martin's Press). In 1998, he published Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America (Palgrave Macmillan), a comprehensive study of the Native American two-spirit tradition. In 2003, he received a Monette-Horowitz Award for lifetime achievement in combatting homophobia. For more on Will and his writings visit willsworld.org.