Contemporary theological approaches to sexuality / edited by Lisa Isherwood and Dirk von der Horst.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Von der Horst, Dirk, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Isherwood, Lisa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sex.

Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

x, 348 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Contents:

List of Contributors

Part I: Normativity and transgression. Normativity and transgression / Lisa Isherwood, Dirk von der Horst

Part II: Bodies. Gender / Adrian Thatcher

Transgender / Sharon A. Bong

A sexual communion of subjects: the way of uncomfortable knowledge / Anne Benvenuti

Neurotheologies and sexualities / Montserrat Escribano-Cárcel

Sexual renunciation in Christian history and theology / Sara Moslener

Theelogy: the "not necessarily Christian alternative" available to pre-Stonewall gay women / Marie Cartier

Music / Dirk von der Horst

Queering desire / Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

Part III: Economies and Violence. Marriage / Lisa Isherwood

Just sex work: a liberation theological, Marxist economic, and global feminist analysis of the sex in the sex trade / Thia Cooper, Kristian Braekkan

Christian theology, sexuality and globalization: shifting practices, revitalizing traditions / Heather Shipley

Rape culture and the politics of sainthood / Gina Messina-Dysert

Sexual abuse by clergy in the Catholic Church / Rosemary Radford Ruether

Reproductive rights and women's rights: justice in sexual relationships / Rosemary Radford Ruether

AIDS: deviancy, stigma, and grace: counter-theology from the genitals of the Body of Christ / Robert E. Shore-Goss

Queer incarnational bedfellows: Christian theology and BDSM practices / Robert E. Shore-Goss

Part IV: Divinity. Love and desire / Gianluigi Gugliermetto

Sexuality in religious polemics / Dirk von der Horst

Sexuality and the 'person' of Christ / Lisa Isherwood

More than a divine ménage à trois: friendship, polyamory, and the doctrine of the trinity / Hugo Córdova Quero, Joseph N. Goh

Sacramental sex/uality / Alejandro S. Escalante

Virgin Mary, mother of God: from phallic fetish to fleshly womanhood? / Lisa Isherwood

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138908970

1138908975

OCLC:

975372587

Publisher Number:

99974957338