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Men, homosexuality, and the Gods : an exploration into the religious significance of male homosexuality in world perspective

Author

Long, Ronald E. (Ronald Edwin), 1946-

Title

Men, homosexuality, and the Gods : an exploration into the religious significance of male homosexuality in world perspective / Ronald E. Long.

Format

Book

Published

New York : Harrington Park Press, c2004.

Description

xi, 178 p. ; 23 cm.

URL

Series

Haworth gay & lesbian studies

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index.

Contents

Straight thinking on some not-so-straightforward matters: Getting your bearings. How shall we think of religion? What of homosexuality
Holy homosexuality : om 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
Holy homoeroticism : splendid men and splendor divine: Plato and the world of ancient Athens. The platonism of Islamic Sufism
Holy effeminacy : the Native American berdache as a living war charm: Men and manhood. Berdaches : third-gendered persons or unmanned men?
Holy homophobia in the Hebrew scriptures: Homophobia and the fear of exile. The fear of death : anal intercource as "unsafe sex". The fear of disorder : homosexual sex as deformity. Alien worship, enemy ways in war. Whose body is it anyway?
Early Christianity : a revolution aborted?: Paul : food, sex, sin, and taste. Augustine of Hippo : sex, homosexuality, faith, and death
The variegated lotus : homosexual sex and historical Buddhism: The nirvanic transcendence of desire. Enlightenment and homosexual sex in Japan and Tibet
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.

Kinsey subjects

Religious attitudes on homosexuality. Attitudes on homosexuality. Mythology.

ISBN

1560231513 (alk. paper) 9781560231516 (alk. paper) 1560231521 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781560231523 (pbk. : alk. paper)