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Autore: | Long Ronald E (Ronald Edwin), <1946-, > |
Titolo: | Men, homosexuality, and the gods : an exploration into the religious significance of male homosexuality in world perspective / / Ronald E. Long |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Harrington Park Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
Disciplina: | 205/.66 |
Soggetto topico: | Male homosexuality - Religious aspects |
Masculinity - Religious aspects | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 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 CharmMen 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 BuddhismThe 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Men, Homosexuality, and the Gods is an eye-opening look at a representative sampling of religions and their edicts concerning gay sex. This book examines the origins of historic holy directives involving homosexuality?whether forbidden, tolerated, or mandatory?and establishes a link between theology, sex paradigms, and the sensitive issue of masculinity. This intriguing text calls for a new approach to gay rights as a freedom of religion issue and shows how the modern homophile movements are in effect redefining masculinity to obliterate the stigma of being a sexually receptive man. Easy-to-re |
Titolo autorizzato: | Men, homosexuality, and the gods |
ISBN: | 1-136-56823-9 |
0-203-05703-1 | |
1-299-14059-9 | |
1-136-56816-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910817736103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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