Religion and Sexuality.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Past -- Modern Philosophy and Ancient Consciousness: I Think, Therefore Am I Gendered? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Is Logic Applicable to Identity? -- 3. Cogito ergo sum -- 4. The First Person -- 5. Neurophysiology of Personal Identity -- 6. Descartes and Antecedents -- 7. Psychoanalysis ofSumerian Gender? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Woman, 'Sin' and 'Lust': The Fall of Adam and Eve According to Classical and Modern Muslim Exegesis -- Human and Divine Sexuality: The Zohar on Genesis 5.2 -- Appendix -- Cohabitation or Conflict: Greek Household Management and Christian Haustafeln -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Marriage in the Graeco-Roman World -- 3. Marriage in Ephesians 5.21-33 -- 4. Conclusion -- λαλέω: A Word about Women, Music and Sensuality in the Church -- 1. Problems with Paul's Statement -- 2. A Survey of the Standard Solutions -- 3. A Closer Look at the Context of the Early Church -- 4. Conclusion: Women, Music and Sensuality in 1 Corinthians 14.34-35? -- 'It's in the Book': Using the Bible in Discussions of Human Sexuality -- 'My Joy, my Love, my Heart': Sexuality and the Poems of George Herbert -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Sexuality, Spirituality and Ecstatic Communion in the Short Fiction of Kate Chopin -- 'O Come All Ye Faithful': Orgasm, Asceticism and the Rhetoric of Self-Abandonment in de Sade, Bataille and Updike -- Present -- The Gendered Body of the Jewish Jesus -- Incarnation and Circumcision -- Transfiguration -- The Eucharist -- The Crucifixion -- The Resurrection -- The Ascension -- Virgins and Vessels: Feminist Reflections on Dominant Models of Spirituality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Virginity and Spirituality -- 3. Vessels of the Lord -- 4. An Alternative Model: Sexualizing the Spiritual -- 5. Conclusion.

Reading for Pleasure/Reading for Pain: Feminist Reflections on the Passion Narrative in John's Gospel -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pervasive Sadomasochism: Everybody's Doing It! -- 3. Into the Wastebasket? -- 4. Reading John 18-19 -- Thealogy and the Parthenogenetic Reproduction of Femaleness -- Sexual Pleasure and Goddess Religion -- Theological Transcendentalism -- Parthenogenesis and Thealogy -- Method, Metaphor and Mammaries: The Ideology of Feminist New Testament Criticism -- 1. Madness in their Method -- 2. A Metaphoric Rise -- 3. Thanks for the Mammaries -- 4. Conclusion -- Sexuality and Spirituality: Embattled Enemies or Kissing Cousins? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Dualism -- 3. Sexuality and Spirituality -- 4. Signs of Convergence -- 5. Conclusion -- Machismo and Marianismo: Liberation Theology and Sexuality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Society -- 3. Reclaiming Mary-Contesting Marianismo -- 4. Conclusion -- Catholics: Sexuality and Death in the Novels of Brian Moore -- 1. Sex, Death and Catholicism -- 2. Catholics -- 3. Transcending Sex, Death and God: Writing as Metaphysical Panacea -- 4. Liberation from Death, Freedom from God: Sex as Salvation -- 5. No One Gets Out of Here Alive: The Decline of Sex, the Rise of Death and the Emergence of Metaphysical Ambiguity -- 6. Conclusion -- Carpe phallum: (Male) Salvation Meta-Narrative and the Renewal -- Lacan's Oedipus: A Masculine Salvation Meta-Narrative? -- Carpe phallum: Oedipus in Cinematic Narrative -- God Is my Father -- The Problem of Sexual Abuse in New-and Old-Religions -- 1. Sexual Abuse-A Widespread Problem -- 2. Interpretations and Analyses -- 3. Tantra: Crazy Wisdom or Abuse -- Codependents or Victims? -- Solutions -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Neither Seen nor Heard nor Wanted: The Child as Problematic. Towards an Actuarial Theology of Generation.

1. Introduction -- 2. Christianity and Sex -- 3. Prologomena -- 4. Children: A Problematic -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Future -- Body Politics: A Thealogical Issue? -- The Body/ies in Question -- So What? -- Who Defines Female Desire? -- Liberation with Christ? -- But Remember... Or Failing That, Invent -- 'Glorify God in your Body' (1 Corinthians 6.20): Thinking Theologically about Sexuality -- 1. Prolegomena -- 2. A Theological Proposal -- 3. Conclusion -- An Ecological Approach to the Quest for New Horizons in the Christian View of Sexuality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Different World-Views -- 3. Widening the Horizons:9 Sexuality Revisited -- 4. Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Refiguring Masculinity in Christ -- I -- II -- III -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Beginning Marriage: Two Traditions -- Index of References -- Index of Authors.

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