Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods : An Exploration into the Religious Significance of Male Homosexuality in World Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781560231516 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 198 str.

Ronald E. Long

Opis

An eye opening look at the traditions of particular religions and their edicts concerning gay sex. Draws a parallel between homosexuality and the idea of religion, suggesting that gay rights can be understood as a freedom of religion issue.

Spis treści

• 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
  

O autorze

Ronald Long