Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell

Francis of Assisi as mother, father, and androgynous figure / by Catherine M.The body of Gherardesca of Pisa reclothed and resexed / by Penelope D.Knighthood, compulsory heterosexuality, and sodomy / by Ruth Mazo Karras.Sexual mutilation and castration anxiety: a medieval perspective / by Jacqueline Murray.Beauty and Passion in tenth-century Córdoba / by Jeffrey A.Impossible translation: Anthony and Paul the Simple in the Historia monachorum / by Mark Masterson.Male friendship and the suspicion of sodomy in twelfth-century France / by Mathew Kuefler.Southern, John Boswell, and the sexuality of Anselm / by Bruce O'Brien My sister, my spouse: woman-identified women in medieval Christianity / by E.Heterosexism and the interpretation of Romans 1:18 32 / by Dale B.Fronto + Marcus: love, friendship, letters / by Amy Richlin.'Both as a Christian and as a historian': on Boswell's ministry / by Mark D.Reading CSTH as a call to action: Boswell and gay-affirming movements in American Christianity / by Bernard Schlager.Touching on the past / by Carolyn Dinshaw.John Boswell's gay science: prolegomenon to a re-reading / by Ralph Hexter.Publisher: The University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226345222 Number of pages: 456 Weight: 709 g Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 3 mm Edition: 35th Anniversary Edition You may also be interested in.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index. This landmark book helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force. Jordan, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality is still fiercely relevant. Now in this thirty-fifth anniversary edition with a new foreword by leading queer and religious studies scholar Mark D. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members-among them priests, bishops, and even saints-when it was first published thirty-five years ago.

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell