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Representations of Homosexuality: Black Liberation Theology and Cultural Criticism (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
Representations of Homosexuality: Black Liberation Theology and Cultural Criticism (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
by Roger A. Sneed
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This book challenges black religious and cultural critics to rethink theological and ethical approaches to homosexuality. Sneed demonstrates how black liberation theology and has often characterized homosexuality as a problem to be solved, and his work... (read more)

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Rewriting Osun: Osun in the Politics of Gender, Race and Sexuality - From Colonization to Creolization
Rewriting Osun: Osun in the Politics of Gender, Race and Sexuality - From Colonization to Creolization
by Jessica M. Alarcon
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Known to practitioners and scholars as the Yoruba goddess of sweet (waters), sensuality, fertility and delight, Osun is a deity of great controversy. Nigerians see her as an astute, responsible mother of many children, yet across the ocean in the New... (read more)

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Gendering Religion and Politics: Untangling Modernities
Gendering Religion and Politics: Untangling Modernities
by Hanna Herzog
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Gendering Religion and Politics explores the multi-dimensional nature and inherently contingent qualities of modernity as they are revealed in the entwined relations between gender, religion, and politics. Evocative case studies by sociologists... (read more)

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Gender and the Social Gospel
Gender and the Social Gospel
by Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards
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This collection of essays examines the central, yet often overlooked, role played by women in the formation of the social gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A practical theological response to the stark realities of... (read more)

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God, Science, Sex, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics
God, Science, Sex, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics
by Patricia Beattie Jung
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God, Sex, Science, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics is a timely, wide-ranging attempt to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and... (read more)

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Beyond Slavery (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
Beyond Slavery (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
by Bernadette J. Brooten
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In a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public... (read more)

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Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives
Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives
by Lowell Gallagher
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This new volume of essays examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality. Why did so many literary Modernists embrace Catholicism? What is their relationship between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and... (read more)

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Liberating Tradition: Women's Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective (Renewedminds)
Liberating Tradition: Women's Identity and Vocation in Christian Perspective (Renewedminds)
by Kristina Lacelle-peterson
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Offers a clear perspective on the issues Christian women face in the twenty-first century and shows how the Bible is a liberating and enriching book for women.... (read more)

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Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
Enslaved Women and the Art of Resistance in Antebellum America (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
by Renee K. Harrison
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The historical records and stories of enslaved African women have both creative and life-affirming resistance strategies for how women of the past have dealt with and healed from violence. This book draws on mid-seventeenth to nineteenth-century slave... (read more)

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Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality (Gender and History)
Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality (Gender and History)
by Laurence Lux-sterritt
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This timely collection of essays, from an international team of authors, spans a wide geographical and chronological spectrum and focuses on female relationships with piety and religious vocations. Ideal for students, each chapter introduces... (read more)

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Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses
Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses
by Donna Freitas
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Based on dozens of face-to-face interviews, Sex and the Soul explores the sexual and spiritual lives of today's college students. Donna Freitas crisscrossed the country, visiting a range of America's colleges and universities--from public to private... (read more)

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Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market
Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market
by Mary Wilson Carpenter
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In a study of the production and consumption of commercial religious literature in Victorian culture, Carpenter (English, Queen's U, Ontario) analyzes first the commercial British Family Bibles and their changing construction of family values over the... (read more)

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Beyond the Scandals: A Guide to Healthy Sexuality for Clergy (Prisms)
Beyond the Scandals: A Guide to Healthy Sexuality for Clergy (Prisms)
by G. Lloyd Rediger
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Readers: Clergy; pastoral counselors; seminary... (read more)

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Households of Faith: Family, Gender, and Community in Canada, 1760-1969 (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion)
Households of Faith: Family, Gender, and Community in Canada, 1760-1969 (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion)
by Connie Brummel Crook
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"Households of Faith" examines a variety of religious traditions with a particular focus on the way in which religious communities define gender identities. The authors explore the boundaries drawn in religious discourse between the private and public... (read more)

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Men and Women: Gender, Judaism and Democracy
Men and Women: Gender, Judaism and Democracy
by Rachel Elior
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Men and Women: Gender, Judaism and Democracy is a collection of articles on the socio-legal status of women in Israel, the religious and cultural context of their rights, and their equality according to religious and civil law. The significance of the... (read more)

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Religion in the Americas #5: Taken from the Lips: Gender and Eros in Mesoamerican Religions
Religion in the Americas #5: Taken from the Lips: Gender and Eros in Mesoamerican Religions
by Sylvia Marcos
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This volume deals with the world of women in Mesoamerica, discussing particularly the religious and ritual aspects of gender. As its sources, it uses colonial documents of the contact period with European cultures, testimonies of the subjugated... (read more)

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Let My People Go: A Call to End the Oppression of Women in the Church
Let My People Go: A Call to End the Oppression of Women in the Church
by Bob Edwards Msw
Available May 2013
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Sexuality and Sex Therapy: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal
Sexuality and Sex Therapy: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal
by Mark A. Yarhouse
Available April 2014
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