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Mark D. Jordan: Telling Truths in Church

Mark D. Jordan: Telling Truths in Church

USA 2003, 121 pp., cloth, € 22.49
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The ongoing crisis in the Catholic church has revealed certain truths: truths in the memories of abused children and adolescents, and truths about the church's response - or lack of response - to evidence about the behavior of some of its priests. But Mark Jordan - the author of »The Silence of Sodom« - argues that for true reform to ... Weiterlesen

John Portmann: Sex and Heaven. Catholics in Bed and at Prayer

John Portmann: Sex and Heaven. Catholics in Bed and at Prayer

USA 2003, 239 pp., hardback, € 22.99
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What does it take to get into heaven? Having the right kind of sex? This book examines the celestial admissions policies of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The 20th century transformed standards remarkably. After nearly 2000 years of division, for example, the Roman Catholic Church admitted Jews into heaven in 1964. The Vatican now vigorously encourages Jews to take pride in ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood: My Guru and His Disciple

Christopher Isherwood: My Guru and His Disciple

USA 2001, 340 pp., brochure, € 19.99
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University of Minnesota Press
»My Guru and His Disciple« is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta ... Weiterlesen

Vanessa Sheridan: Crossing over

Vanessa Sheridan: Crossing over

USA 2001, 157 pp., brochure, € 20.59
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Claiming her identity as both christian and transgendered, the author offers insight into the transgender experience and confronts the harsh reality of injustice prevalent in society and in the church toward those who are differently gendered. Her passionate writing offers hope for those who are transgendered as well as challenging all christians to include transgendered persons into the full life ... Weiterlesen

William Countryman, M. Ritley: Gifted by Otherness

William Countryman, M. Ritley: Gifted by Otherness

USA 2001, 164 pp., brochure, € 21.89
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Gay and lesbian christians are in the awkward position of trying to explain themselves to two mutually hostile audiences. On the one side, the G&L community is often deeply suspicious of anyone connected with christianity. On the other side sits the church, which often wishes that gays and lesbians would go away, or at least disappear into the woodwork quietly. ... Weiterlesen

Eugene Kennedy: The Unhealed Wound

Eugene Kennedy: The Unhealed Wound

USA 2001, 214 pp., pb, € 15.84
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The leaders of the Catholic Church have failed to understand and embrace human sexuality. This dismissive, even condemnatory, attitude toward sex has caused great pain in millions of believers and has led to a church that is out of touch with its true spirituality and the spirituality of its people.

Andrew Harvey (ed.): The Essential Gay Mystics

Andrew Harvey (ed.): The Essential Gay Mystics

USA 2001, 290 pp., brochure, € 23.19
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From Sappho to Whitman, Vergil to Audre Lorde, those who love others of the same sex have been foremost in the ranks of artists whose work reflects a mystical experience of God. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people will find writings that illuminate the mystical path in this bountiful collection of selections from their spiritual forebears. The radical lesson of ... Weiterlesen

Mark D. Jordan: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology

Mark D. Jordan: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology

UK 1997, 200 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Oxford University Press
This text explores the invention of sodomy in medieval Christendom, examining its conceptual foundations in theology and gauging its impact on Christian sexual ethics both then and now. It traces the historical genealogy of this enduring cultural construct through many of the idiosyncratic worldviews of the Middle Ages - worldviews at war with themselves in their attitudes toward sex, love ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Moore: God's Gym

Stephen Moore: God's Gym

USA/UK 1996, 185 pp., brochure, € 37.99
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If man is created in the image of a perfect God, does the mortal body strive for physical perfection as well? Is bodybuilding part of God's plan for us? Is this strikingly original work, Moore considers God's male bodies - the bodies of Yahweh, of the Father of Jesus Christ, and of Jesus himself - and our obsessive earthly quest ... Weiterlesen

Leroy Aarons: Prayers for Bobby

Leroy Aarons: Prayers for Bobby

A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son. USA 1995, 271 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Harper Collins
»Prayers for Bobby«, nominated for the 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby Griffith to a tragic conclusion. He was an all-American boy, and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict - for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was »wrong« - Bobby chose to take his ... Weiterlesen

Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

USA 1985, 182 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Grove Press
Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with lesbian (that is: unorthodox) sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing ... Weiterlesen

John Boswell: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

John Boswell: Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

USA 1994, 412 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.95
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Vintage
Boswell has taken great care to assemble, transcribe, translate and interpret a persuasive array of texts describing same-sex relationships in the ancient world. It is a testimony to the fairness of the book that he confronts the opposing arguments clearly. At a time when strictures against homosexuality are the subject of impassioned debate, this groundbreaking work of scholarship has generated ... Weiterlesen
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Derek Jarman (R): The Garden

Derek Jarman (R): The Garden

UK 1990, OF, 86 Min., € 29.99
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Derek Jarman's »The Garden« is a collection of images dealing with homosexuality and Christianity in experimental fashion, with Jarman's own presence integral to the film. At its heart is a passion play. Themes such as AIDS, repression, police brutality and the end of the world are also explored.

The Investigative Staff of The Boston Globe: Betrayal

The Investigative Staff of The Boston Globe: Betrayal

The Crisis in the Catholic Church, € 15.65
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»Betrayal« provides a detailed, devastating account of the Catholic Church's decades-long cover-up that has left millions of American Catholics shocked, angry, and confused. It brings into sharp focus the scores of abusive priests who preyed upon children and the cabal of senior Church officials who covered up their crimes. If Boston was the epicenter of of the abuse scandal, the ... Weiterlesen

John Boswell: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

John Boswell: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

USA 1980, 424 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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John Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexualiy in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Chruch's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized saints.

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