Ronald Long: Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods

Cover: 9781560231523 | Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods | Ronald Long | Taschenbuch | 2004

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Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods is an eye-opening look at a representative sampling of religions and their edicts concerning gay sex. This book examines the origins of historic holy directives involving homosexuality--whether forbidden, tolerated, or mandatory--and establishes a link between theology, sex paradigms, and the sensitive issue of masculinity. This intriguing text calls for a new approach to gay rights as a freedom of religion issue and shows how the modern homophile movements are in effect redefining masculinity to obliterate the stigma of being a sexually receptive man. Easy-to-read and free of technical language, this volume is for anyone who has an academic, professional, or personal interest in theology and homosexuality.
The author is available for speaking engagements and can be contacted at [...]

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Ronald Long

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2004
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781560231523
ISBN-10:	1560231521
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Long, Ronald
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	210 x 148 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Ronald Long
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.07.2004
Gewicht:	0,256 kg