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List of Contributors | p. xi |
Forewood | p. xv |
Introduction xix | |
Methods and Sources | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Notes on Historical Grounding: Beyond Sexual Essentialism | p. 6 |
Setting the Problem, Laying the Ground | p. 16 |
Experiencing the Body: Sexuality and Conflict in American Lutheranism | p. 34 |
Black and Blues: God-Talk/Body-Talk for the Black Church | p. 48 |
Sexuality and Spirituality | |
Introduction | p. 69 |
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power | p. 73 |
Sexing Black Women: Liberation from the Prisonhouse of Anatomical Authority | p. 78 |
Where Are We? Seven Sinful Problems and Seven Virtuous Possibilities | p. 95 |
Rethinking Sin and Grace for LGBT People Today | p. 105 |
Touching the Taboo: On the Sexuality of Jesus | p. 119 |
Gender, Race, and Sexual Identities | |
Introduction | p. 137 |
The Erosion of Sexual Dimorphism: Challenges to Religion and Religious Ethics | p. 141 |
Pain and Pleasure: Avoiding the Confusions of Christian Tradition in Feminist Theory | p. 165 |
Lovingly Lesbian: Toward a Feminist Theology of Friendship | p. 183 |
What If It Is a Choice? Some Implications of the Homosexuality Debates for Theology | p. 197 |
The Construction of the Black Male Body: Eroticism and Religion | p. 205 |
Beyong Machismo: A Cuban Case Study | p. 221 |
Rethinking Sexual Ethics | |
Introduction | p. 241 |
Reimagining Good Sex: The Eroticizing of Mutual Respect and Pleasure | p. 245 |
Making Love as Making Justice: Towards a New Jewish Ethic of Sexuality | p. 262 |
Appropriate Vulnerability: A Sexual Ethic for Singles | p. 272 |
Sexuality and Social Policy | p. 278 |
Guilty Pleasures: When Sex Is Good Because It's Bad | p. 292 |
A Queer Fidelity: Reinventing Christian Marriage | p. 304 |
Sexual Health and Bodily Integrity | |
Introduction | p. 319 |
Disruptive Bodies: Disability, Embodiment, and Sexuality | p. 322 |
AIDS, Shame, and Suffering | p. 338 |
Safer Text: Reading Biblical Laments in the Age of AIDS | p. 347 |
Is There Life after Roe? How to Think about the Fetus | p. 358 |
Marriage Equality: A Test Case for the Church | |
Introduction | |
Contested Marriage/Loving Relationality | p. 380 |
A Catholic Defense of Same-Sex Marriage | p. 390 |
Marriage in a New Key | p. 397 |
Familiar Idolatry and the Christian Case against Marriage | p. 412 |
Acknowledgments | p. 437 |
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