Gay Religion

by Thumma, Scott; Gray, Edward R.

• ISBN13: 9780759103269
• ISBN10: 0759103267
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-26
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

While homosexuals continue gaining acceptance in other arenas of American culture, only a tiny minority of religious groups accept gays and lesbians as full members and potential clergy. Serious conflicts over homosexuality threaten to break apart several

Table of Contents

Foreword
WILLIAM McKINNEY AND MARY A. TOLBERT	ix
Introduction
EDWARD R. GRAY AND SCOTT THUMMA	xi
Part I: Denominational Heritage Expressions	1	(162)
CHAPTER 1 The Gay God of the City: The Emergence of the Gay and Lesbian Ethnic Parish
LEONARD NORMAN PRIMIANO	7	(24)
CHAPTER 2 Reconciling Congregations Bridging Gay and Straight Communities
WENDY CADGE	31	(16)
CHAPTER 3 No Longer an Oxymoron: Integrating Gay and Lesbian Seventh-day Adventist Identities
RENÉ DRUMM	47	(20)
CHAPTER 4 Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical
SCOTT THUMMA	67	(16)
CHAPTER 5 Why Join a Gay Synagogue?
MOSHE SHOKEID	83	(16)
CHAPTER 6 Latter-day Saint Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Spirituality
RICHLEY H. CRAPO	99	(16)
CHAPTER 7 Sexuality and Gender in Santeria: LGBT Identities at the Crossroads of Santeria Religious Practices and Beliefs
SALVADOR VIDAL-ORTIZ	115	(24)
CHAPTER 8 Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Buddhist Practitioners
WENDY CADGE	139	(14)
CHAPTER 9 Shades of Grey or Back to Nature? The Enduring Qualities of Ex-Gay Ministries
CHRISTY M. PONTICELLI	153	(10)
Part II: Subaltern/Sectarian Expressions	163	(118)
CHAPTER 10 Pluralism and Diversity: Music as Discourse and Information in a Gay and Lesbian Congregation
W. BERNARD LUKENBILL	167	(14)
CHAPTER 11 "St. Gerard Teaches Him That Love Cancels That Out:" Devotion to St. Gerard Maiella among Italian American Catholic Gay Men in Newark, New Jersey
PETER SAUASTANO	181	(22)
CHAPTER 12 A Religion of One's Own: Gender and LGBT Religiosities
MELISSA M. WILCOX	203	(18)
CHAPTER 13 Liberation in Truth: African American Lesbians Reflect on Religion, Spirituality, and Their Church
ARYANA BATES	221	(18)
CHAPTER 14 Utopian Imaginaries and Faerie Practice: Mapping Routes of Relational Agency
JAY HASBROUCK	239	(20)
CHAPTER 15 Queering the Dragonfest: Changing Sexualities in a Post-Patriarchal Religion
MARY JO NEITZ	259	(22)
Part III: Popular Expressions	281	(86)
CHAPTER 16 The Gospel Hour: Liminality, Identity, and Religion in a Gay Bar
EDWARD R. GRAY AND SCOTT THUMMA	285	(18)
CHAPTER 17 Intermediaries: Spirit and Transcendence in a Sample of "Third-Gendered" North Americans
INGRID SELL	303	(10)
CHAPTER 18 Rite to Party: Circuit Parties and Religious Experience
PAUL J. GORRELL	313	(14)
CHAPTER 19 The Harvey Milk Show: Violence, Desire, and Gay Popular Culture
EDWARD R. GRAY	327	(10)
CHAPTER 20 Gay Men's Spiritual Experience in the Leather Community
THOMAS V. PETERSON	337	(14)
CHAPTER 21 The Spirit Within: Gay Male Culture as a Spiritual Venue
DONALD L. BOISVERT	351
Conclusion: Gay Religion as a Cultural Production
R. MARIE GRIFFITH	367	(10)
Appendix	377	(30)
Bibliography	407	(26)
Index	433	(18)
About the Authors	451