Religion
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 | Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition | The Rev. Dr Bailey provides in this book a detached and scholary examination of homosexuality in its historical and religious contexts. The author begins with a consideration of Sodom - showing, incidentally, that that city was not specially remarkable for the cult to which it has given its name - and then goes on to discuss what else there is in the Bible concerning homosexuality. He brings under his cool, searching scrutiny Roman Law, Medieval Canon Law, and the actual practice of the Medieval Church. He shows the influence of this back-ground in the present attitude of society and in the law as it stands today. Finally he gives his own conclusions and recommendations. | ||
| Derrick Sherwin Bailey | ||||
| 1955 | ||||
| Gay, History, Law, Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL001 | ||||
 | Homosexuality: Time to Tell the Truth | The book outlines many of the aspects of being homosexual, such as coming out, sex, dealing with the law and more. It looks at how Christianity relates to being homosexual. It contains discussion questions and is aimed at young people, their families and friends. | ||
| Leonard Barnett | ||||
| 1975 | ||||
| Gay, Law, Lesbian, Relationships, Religion, Sex | ||||
| Book#: REL002 | ||||
 | Homosexuality From the Inside | In this book, Blamires approaches the subject of homosexuals within the Society of Friends who are also Quakers. | ||
| David Blamires | ||||
| 1973 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL003 | ||||
 | Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century | John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force. | ||
| John Boswell | ||||
| 1980 | ||||
| Gay, History, Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL004 | ||||
 | Amazing Grace: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Faith | Lesbian and gay Christians are everywhere - in the arts and academia, sports and the military, politics and the professions. We know firsthand the church's beauty and cruelty, its sacramental grace and homophobic sins, its healing and dis-ease, its discipleship of Christ and betrayal of Christ, its warm expression of God's love and cold repudation of God's love. In Amazing Grace you will discover our spiritual pilgrimages, childhood experiences, mature relationships, sexual awakening, grappling with Faith, encounters with social justice and out confrontations with AIDS. Let us share with you our lives as lesbian and gay Christians. | ||
| Nancy L. Wilson, Malcolm Boyd | ||||
| 1991 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL005 | ||||
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 | God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence | At the funeral of Matthew Shepard—the young Wyoming man brutally murdered for being gay—the Reverend Fred Phelps led his parishioners in protest, displaying signs with slogans like “Matt Shepard rots in Hell,” “Fags Die God Laughs,” and “God Hates Fags.” In counter-protest, activists launched an “angel action,” dressing in angel costumes, with seven-foot high wings, and creating a visible barrier so one would not have to see the hateful signs. Though long thought of as one of the most virulently anti-gay genres of contemporary American politics and culture, in God Hates Fags, Michael Cobb maintains that religious discourses have curiously figured as the most potent and pervasive forms of queer expression and activism throughout the twentieth century. Cobb focuses on how queers have assumed religious rhetoric strategically to respond to the violence done against them, alternating close readings of writings by James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Jean Toomer, Dorothy Allison, and Stephen ... | ||
| Michael L. Cobb | ||||
| 2006 | ||||
| Gay, Homophobia, Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL006 | ||||
 | Freedom and Framework: Shaping of Gay Relationships | Jim Cotter has been involved in the work of the Gay Christian Movement since its beginnings in 1976. This is a paper given at a GCM conference held in 1976. | ||
| Jim Cotter | ||||
| 1976 | ||||
| Gay, Relationships, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL007 | ||||
 | Breaking Silence: Lesbian Nuns on Convent Sexuality | Nuns - Alien in their dramatic garb. Set apart from us in their regimented communities, by their singular dedication. Nuns - Different. . .Fascinating. Their lives intrigue us all. In these unique and compelling revelations, both ex-nuns and present nuns unlock the most secret doors in their closed and mysterious communities. Under ridigly enforced rules of behaviour, where women's lives are consecrated and subjugated to the most sacred of vows, where "particular friendships" are ruthlessly eradicated under pain of sin and expulsion, still the power of love manages to emerge and survive. Each nun in these stories describes the individual and searing path she has journeyed to discover and face and experience the truth of herself: that she is a lesbian nun. Unprecedented, myth-shattering, explosive in its unveiling of religious life and society, this book will create a firestorm. | ||
| Nancy Manahan, Rosemary Curb | ||||
| 1985 | ||||
| Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL008 | ||||
 | Not for Turning: An Enquiry into the Ex-Gay Movement | The 'ex-gay' movement consists of evangelical Christian groups who proclaim the 'sinfulness' of lesbian and gay sexuality, and advocate the desirability of ' healing' for lesbians and gay men. Not for Turning is the report of a four-year enquiry into the ex-gay movement in the UK, and is written by a group of people who identify as lesbian or gay. While they do not claim neutrality, they have endeavoured to be independent, fair and as objective as possible. | ||
| Jeremy Innes, Brenda Harrison, Tony Green | ||||
| 1996 | ||||
| Gay, Homophobia, Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL009 | ||||
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 | The Book of Sodom | The biblical story of the destruction of Sodom has inspired countless literary visions. The city has elicited writing from Milton, Sade, Proust, Dostoevsky and Tournier, amongst others. This work contains an anthology of Sodom texts spanning several centuries. Paul Hallam has also provided his own reading of these languages of prejudice, obsession and desire in an extensive essay. | ||
| Paul Hallam | ||||
| 1993 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL010 | ||||
 | Time for Consent: A Christian's Approach to Homosexuality | Norman Pittenger's courageous book on homosexuality has been in constant demand since it first appeared as a slim paperback in 1967. In this latest impression, he has added his reflections on most recent developments, including the current situation in the Episcopal Church in the United States, the working-party report submitted to the Methodist Church in 1978, and the report by by the Church of England Working Party published in October 1979 which is to be considered at a session of the General Synod in 1981. | ||
| NORMAN PITTENGER | ||||
| 1980 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL010.01 | ||||
 | Reclaiming the Spirit: Gay Men and Lesbians Come to Terms with Their Religion | This text explores the quest for an integration of homosexuality and spirituality. The author interviewed gay men and women who grew up in families belonging to traditional religions that rejected homosexuality as unacceptable. They reveal the balance between their gay and religious identities. | ||
| David Shallenberger | ||||
| 1998 | ||||
| Gay, Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL011 | ||||
 | Daring to Speak Loves Name: A Gay and Lesbian Prayer Book | Both a handbook for gay and lesbian Christians looking for words and liturgies to express their own experience of life - from coming out to dealing with AIDS - this book is also offered to the clergy wishing to minister more fully to the needs of its congregation. It is a challenging book which combines practical help with inspirational psalms and prayers. | ||
| Elizabeth Stuart | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| AIDS/HIV, Coming Out, Gay, Lesbian, Religion | ||||
| Book#: REL012 | ||||
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