1st Edition
A Special Illumination Authority, Inspiration and Heresy in Gay Spirituality
By Rollan McCleary
Copyright 2004
382 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
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Routledge
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Gay spirituality represents a hidden strand in Western thought that was only publically declared from the Gay Liberation of the 1970s. Since "coming out", expressions of gay spirituality have proliferated in both number and diversity. Beginning with gay theology within Christianity, the phenomenon has now reached as far as Buddhism and neo-paganism. But, so far, critical analysis of the movement... Read more
Foreword; PART ONE: AUTHORITY; Chapter One: General Introduction; Chapter Two: Gay Theology; Chapter Three: Queer Spirituality and Theology; Chapter Four: Experience and Gay Pastoral Theology; PART TWO: INSPIRATION; Chapter Five: Towards a Faerie Vision; Chapter Six: Inside the Faerie Vision, Spirit and Soul; Chapter Seven: Gay Mystics; Chapter Eight: The Way of Eros and Ganymede; PART THREE: HERESY; Chapter Nine: Uses and Abuses of Heresy; Chapter Ten: Achieving Synthesis; Afterword: Incompletion and the Ethical Question
Biography
Rollan McCleary
