1st Edition

Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell

Edited By Bernard S. Schlager Copyright 2025
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship builds upon the work and legacy of Professor John Boswell, bringing together contributions that were delivered at the annual CLGS Boswell Lecture Series at Pacific School of Religion, USA. Boswell is lauded as a major scholar in gender and sexuality studies and is recognized as an early advocate for the full inclusion of LGBTQ people in faith... Read more

Introduction (Bernard Schlager)

Theology

1. Who Is Human?: The Subversive Question at the Heart of Christianity

Orlando O. Espín

2. Enfleshing Eros, Healing Earth: A Queerly Christian Performance of Ecological Renewal in Three Acts”

Jay Emerson Johnson

3. Queer Bodies: Colliding, Expanding, Flourishing

Rolf Nolasco

 Gender and Race

4. Reading the Bible with the Eunuchs

Sean D. Burke

5. The Rainbow Connection: Bridging Asian American and Queer Theologies

Patrick S. Cheng

6. How Does a Queer Feminist Remain a Christian?

Lisa Isherwood 

Ethics and Social Transformation

7. What’s Queer about Christian Couples? Engaging Augustine’s Theology of Marriage

Virginia Burrus

8. “Peace Be Still”: James Cleveland and the Paradox of Peace in the Civil Rights Movement

Johari Jabir

9. A Gay, Male, Christian, Sexual Ethic

Dale B. Martin

10. Queer Theology and Social Transformation: Points of Contact, Points of Conflict

Jay Michaelson

11. Why Do Biblical Interpreters Hate Sex So Much?

Luis Menéndez-Antuña

Biography

Bernard S. Schlager is Associate Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies as well as Executive Director of the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion, USA.