Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

volume 1 Homosexuality in Modern Religious history

1 Hinduism and Homosexuality; 2 Queer Buddhists: Re-visiting Sexual Gender Fluidity; 3 I'm Just Not That Kind of God: Queering Kabbalistic Gender Play; 4 Islam and Discourses of Same-Sex Desire; 5 Same-Sex Desire in Early Christianity; 6 Soul Work: Developing a Black LGBT Liberation Theology; 7 Searching for Gender-Variant East African Spiritual Leaders, from Missionary Discourse to Middle Course. 8 Bottoming for the Queen: Queering the Jews in Protestant Europe at the Fin de Sie`cle9 Whitman's Church of Comradeship: Same-Sex Love, Religion, and the Marginality of Friendship; 10 Leathermen: Sexuality and Spirituality; 11 One Gay Man's Trinitarian Faith; 12 Reflections on a Queer Life; 13 Writing the Spirit: Testimony and the Unauthorized Voice in the Queer Spiritual Memoir

volume 2 LGBT Movements and Queering Religion

1 Becoming Undone and Becoming Human: Sexual and Religious Selves in the Thought of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler2 Erotic Conversion: Coming Out of Christian Erotophobia; 3 Lesbian Feminist Pioneers in Religion; 4 Listening to the Passion of Catholic nu-tongzhi: Developing a Catholic Lesbian Feminist Theology in Hong Kong; 5 Man-Boy and Daddy-God: A Sacred S/M Reading of Ezekiel's Call to Prophecy; 6 Sadomasochism and Spirituality: A Queerly Religious Challenge to the Gay Marriage Paradigm; 7 Not Just a Phase: Single Black Women in the Black Church; 8 What Race is Your Sex? 9 Toward a Queer Theology of Flourishing: Transsexual Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Moral Agency10 The Bakla^: Gendered Religious Performance in Filipino Cultural Spaces; 11 Of Bodily Anamnesis: Postcolonial, Queer, Religious Analysis; 12 God, Sex, and Popular Culture: The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Lady Gaga; 13 Queer Theory and the Study of Religion

"Queer Religion provides a systematic and detailed overview of the challenges and issues that the intersections of religion, same-sex desire, and gender variance have generated, both now and in the past. It focuses upon the development of these areas of overlap through three distinct historical periods: modern religious history, LGBT liberation movements, and the emergence of queer theory and analysis. This two-volume collection of eclectic essays investigates the experiences of queer people and religion, providing a broad, unique, and invaluable analysis of this important cultural and theological encounter. As a group, the contributors offer brave insights and diverse perspectives on a variety of topics dealing with religion, same-sex desire, and gender expression. Some of these essays are explicitly historical in focus or scholarly articles, while others provide autobiographical viewpoints and personal reminiscences. This book provides a comprehensive look at the queer dimensions of religious practice and belief--essential reading for religious scholars; those within the LGBT community; and anyone interested in human spirituality and sexuality"--Del editor.