Research Catalog

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Description

1. xi, 370 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Gay Spirituality represents a hidden stream in Western thought that in the wake of Gay Liberation has finally declared itself and enlarged its borders. Since 'coming out' in the 1970s against the background of a liberationist secularism that at first ignored it, expressions of gay spirituality are many and increasing. Beginning with especially gay theology within Christianity the phenomenon has reached everywhere from Buddhism to neo-paganism. So far, however, critical assessment of the movement is minimal to non-existent. This lack is due to a refusal to regard the trend as more than a claim to rights and acceptance within religious circles as opposed to the more serious questioning of the self, of vision and of ethics."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Homosexuality > Religious aspects
2. Gay people > Religious life
3. Homosexualité > Aspect religieux
4. Personnes homosexuelles > Vie religieuse
5. Gays > Religious life
6. Homosexuality > Religious aspects
7. Godsdienstige bewegingen
8. Homoseksuelen
9. Godsdienstigheid
10. Homosexualité
11. Homosexuel
12. Religion
13. Spiritualité
14. Vie religieuse
15. Vie spirituelle

Contents

1. pt. I. Authority -- General introduction -- Gay theology -- Queer spirituality and theology -- Experience and gay pastoral theology -- pt. II. Inspiration -- Towards a fairie vision -- Inside the fairie vision, spirit and soul -- Gay mystics -- The way of Eros and Ganymede -- pt. III. Heresy -- Uses and abuses of heresy -- Achieving synthesis -- Afterword : incompletion and the ethical question.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-361) and indexes.