Gay religion /
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| Imprint: | Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2005. |
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| Description: | xvi, 454 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5636283 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / William McKinney and Mary A. Tolbert
- Introduction / Edward R. Gray and Scott Thumma
- Pt. I. Denominational heritage expressions
- Ch. 1. The gay god of the city : the emergence of the gay and lesbian ethnic parish / Leonard Norman Primiano
- Ch. 2. Reconciling congregations bridging gay and straight communities / Wendy Cadge
- Ch. 3. No longer an oxymoron : integrating gay and lesbian Seventh-Day Adventist identities / Rene Drumm
- Ch. 4. Negotiating a religious identity : the case of the gay evangelical / Scott Thumma
- Ch. 5. Why join a gay synagogue? / Moshe Shokeid
- Ch. 6. Latter-Day Saint lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered spirituality / Richley H. Crapo
- Ch. 7. Sexuality and gender in Santeria : LGBT identities at the crossroads of Santeria religious practices and beliefs / Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
- Ch. 8. Lesbian, gay and bisexual Buddhist practitioners / Wendy Cadge
- Ch. 9. Shades of grey or black to nature? : the enduring qualities of ex-gay ministries / Christy M. Ponticelli
- Pt. II. Subaltern/sectarian expressions
- Ch. 10. Pluralism and diversity : music as discourse and information in a gay and lesbian congregation / W. Bernard Lukenbill
- Ch. 11. "St. Gerard teaches him that love cancels that out" : devotion to St. Gerard Maiella among Italian American Catholic gay men in Newark, New Jersey / Peter Savastano
- Ch. 12. A religion of one's own : gender and LGBT religiosities / Melissa M. Wilcox
- Ch. 13. Liberation in truth : African American lesbians reflect on religion, spirituality and their church / Aryana Bates
- Ch. 14. Utopian imaginaries and faerie practice : mapping routes of relational agency / Jay Hasbrouck
- Ch. 15. Queering the dragonfest : changing sexualities in a post-patriarchal religion / Mary Jo Neitz
- Pt. III. Popular expressions
- Ch. 16. The gospel hour : liminality, identity, and religion in a gay bar / Edward R. Gray and Scott Thumma
- Ch. 17. Intermediaries : spirit and transcendence in a sample of "third-gendered" North Americans / Ingrid Sell
- Ch. 18. Rite to party : circuit parties and religious experience / Paul J. Gorrell
- Ch. 19. The harvey milk show : violence, desire, and gay popular culture / Edward R. Gray
- Ch. 20. Gay men's spiritual experience in the leather community / Thomas V. Peterson
- Ch. 21. The spirit within : gay male culture as a spiritual venue / Donald L. Boisvert
- Conclusion : gay religion as a cultural production / R. Marie Griffith.