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New Approaches in History and Theology to Same-Sex Love and Desire

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Editors:
  1. Mark D. Chapman

    1. Ripon College, University of Oxford, Cuddesdon, United Kingdom

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  2. Dominic Janes

    1. Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

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  • Explores key aspects of same-sex desire in Christianity, before, during and after the second half of the twentieth century
  • Aims to further discussion on new creative approaches to the histories of Christianity and same-sex desire
  • Argues that interactions between forms of Catholicism and same-sex desire in late Victorian England were written out of lesbian and gay history

Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Same-Sex Love and Desire—A Time for New Approaches

    • Mark D. Chapman, Dominic Janes
    Pages 1-9

  3. Theological Amnesia and Same-Sex Love

    • Adrian Thatcher
    Pages 11-28

  4. Sexuality as a Guide to Ethics: God and the Variable Body in English Literature

    • Chris Mounsey
    Pages 29-53

  5. The Tradition of Homophobia: Responses to Same-Sex Relationships in Serbian Orthodoxy from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

    • Nik Jovčić-Sas
    Pages 55-77

  6. Sexual Ethics in the Shadow of Modernism: George Tyrrell, André Raffalovich and the Project that Never Was

    • Philip Healy
    Pages 79-92

  7. ‘Pope Norman’, Griffin’s Report and Roman Catholic Reactions to Homosexual Law Reform in England and Wales, 1954–1971

    • Alana Harris
    Pages 93-116

  8. Some Found a Niche: Same-Sex Attracted People in Australian Anglicanism

    • David Hilliard
    Pages 117-137

  9. ‘The Ecclesiastical Wing of the Lavender Revolution’: Religion and Sexual Identity Organising in the USA, 1946–1976

    • Heather R. White
    Pages 139-160

  10. Christ and the Homosexual: An Early Manifesto for an Affirming Christian Ministry to Homosexuals

    • Bernard Schlager
    Pages 161-186

  11. ‘Homosexual Practice’ and the Anglican Communion from the 1990s: A Case Study in Theology and Identity

    • Mark D. Chapman
    Pages 187-208

  12. How Queer Can Christian Marriage Be? Eschatological Imagination and the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions in the American Episcopal Church

    • Rémy Bethmont
    Pages 209-225

  13. Setting the Table Anew: Queering the Lord’s Supper in Contemporary Art

    • Mariecke van den Berg
    Pages 227-248

  14. The Queerness of Saints: Inflecting Devotion and Same-Sex Desire

    • Donald L. Boisvert
    Pages 249-264

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 265-270
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About this book

This book offers a range of interdisciplinary evaluations of the history of same-sex relationships in the Church as they have been understood in different periods and contexts. The relationships between diverse forms of religious and sexual identities have been widely contested in the media since the rise of the lesbian and gay liberation movement in the 1970s. One of the key images that often appears in public debate is that of ‘lesbians and gays in the Church’ as a significant ‘problem’. Research over the past forty years or so into queer theology and the history of same-sex desire has shown that such issues have played an important role in the story of Christianity over many centuries. The contributors to this volume have all been inspired by the challenges of such revisionist study to explore religion and same-sex desire as a field of opportunity for investigation and debate. They uncover some of the hidden histories of the Church and its theologies: they tell sometimes unexpected stories, many of which invite serious further study. It is quite clear through history that some in the churches have been at the vanguard of legislative and social change. Similarly, some churches have offered safe queer spaces. Overall, these essays offer new interpretations and original research into the history of sexuality that helps inform the contemporary debate in the churches as well as in the academy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ripon College, University of Oxford, Cuddesdon, United Kingdom

    Mark D. Chapman

  • Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

    Dominic Janes

About the editors

Mark D. Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College, Professor of the History of Modern Theology at the University of Oxford and Canon Theologian of Truro Cathedral, UK. He is an Anglican priest and member of General Synod of the Church of England and has written widely on many aspects of Church History.
 
Dominic Janes is Professor of Modern History and Director of the History Programme at Keele University, UK. He is a cultural historian who focuses on the histories of gender, sexuality and religion. His most recent books are Picturing the Closet (2015), Visions of Queer Martyrdom (2015) and Oscar Wilde Prefigured (2016).



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