Religion and sexuality

"This volume on a provocative set of topics presents papers from the 1997 conference on Religion and Sexuality at Roehampton Institute London. The papers do not confine themselves to contemporary discussion of the topics concerned, but range widely in their discourse and discuss this relationsh...

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Other Authors: Hayes, Michael A., 1957-, Porter, Wendy,, Tombs, David, 1965-, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: London, UK ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (438 pages).
Series: Studies in theology and sexuality ; 2.
Roehampton Institute London papers ; 4.
Ebook Central (EBC)
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Table of Contents:
  • Modern philosophy and ancient consciousness: I think, therefore am I gendered? /
  • Arthur Gibson
  • Woman, 'sin' and 'lust': the fall of Adam and Eve according to classical and modern Muslim exegesis /
  • Simonetta Calderini
  • Human and divine sexuality: the Zohar on Genesis 5.2 /
  • John Elwolde
  • Cohabitation or conflict: Greek household management and Christian haustafeln /
  • Y.C. Whang
  • [Laleō]: a word about women, music and sensuality in the church /
  • Wendy J. Porter
  • 'It's in the book': using the Bible in discussions of human sexuality /
  • Carol Smith
  • 'My joy, my love, my heart': sexuality and the poems of George Herbert /
  • Pat Pinsent
  • Sexuality, spirituality and ecstatic communion in the short fiction of Kate Chopin /
  • Janet Beer
  • 'O come all ye faithful': orgasm, asceticism and the rhetoric of self-abandonment in de Sade, Bataille and Updike /
  • Kevin McCarron
  • Gendered body of the Jewish Jesus /
  • Graham Ward
  • Virgins and vessels: feminist reflections on dominant models of spirituality /
  • Beverley Clack
  • Reading for pleasure/reading for pain: feminist reflections on the Passion narrative in John's gospel /
  • Alison Jasper
  • Thealogy and the parthenogenetic reproduction of femaleness /
  • Melissa Raphael
  • Method, metaphor and mammaries: the ideology of feminist New Testament criticism /
  • Brook W.R. Pearson
  • Sexuality and spirituality: embattled enemies or kissing cousins? /
  • Michael A. Hayes
  • Machismo and marianismo: liberation theology and sexuality /
  • David Tombs
  • Catholics: sexuality and death in the novels of Brian Moore /
  • Liam Gearon
  • Carpe phallum: (male) salvation meta-narrative and the renewal /
  • Steve Nolan
  • Problem of sexual abuse in new
  • and old
  • religions /
  • Elizabeth Puttick
  • Neither seen nor heard nor wanted: the child as problematic: towards an actuarial theology of generation /
  • Jon Davies
  • Body politics: a thealogical issue? /
  • Lisa Isherwood
  • 'Glorify God in your body' (1 Corinthians 6.20): thinking theologically about sexuality /
  • Stephen C. Barton
  • Ecological approach to the quest for new horizons in the Christian view of sexuality /
  • Frederik B.O. Nel
  • Refiguring masculinity in Christ /
  • Gerard Loughlin
  • Beginning marriage: two traditions /
  • Adrian Thatcher.