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Queer Christianities : Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms /

Queerness and Christianity, often depicted as mutually exclusive, both challenge received notions of the good and the natural. Nowhere is this challenge more visible than in the identities, faiths, and communities that queer Christians have long been creating. As Christians they have staked a claim...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Talvacchia, Kathleen T. (Editor), Pettinger, Michael F. (Editor), Larrimore, Mark (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York ; London : New York University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Celibacies
  • 1. Celibacy Was Queer: Rethinking Early Christianity
  • 2. "Queerish" Celibacy: Reorienting Marriage in the Ex-Gay Movement
  • 3. Celibate Politics: Queering the Limits
  • 4. How Queer Is Celibacy? A Queer Nun's Story
  • Church Interlude I: A Congregation Embodies Queer Theology
  • Part II: Matrimonies
  • 5. Two Medieval Brides of Christ: Complicating Monogamous Marriage
  • 6. Gay Rites and Religious Rights: New York's First Same-Sex Marriage Controversy
  • 7. Beyond Procreativity: Heterosexuals Queering Marriage
  • 8. Disrupting the Normal: Queer Family Life 103 as Sacred Work
  • Church Interlude II: Healing Oppression Sickness
  • Part III: Promiscuities
  • 9. Double Love: Rediscovering the Queerness of Sin and Grace
  • 10. Love Your Friends: Learning from the Ethics of Relationships
  • 11. Calvary and the Dungeon: Theologizing BDSM
  • 12. Who Do You Say That I Am? Transforming Promiscuity and Privilege
  • Part IV: Forward!
  • 13. Three Versions of Human Sexuality
  • 14. Disrupting the Theory-Practice Binary
  • 15. Everything Queer?
  • Consolidated Bibliography
  • About the Contributors
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • L
  • M
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
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