By Linn Marie Tonstad

God and Difference interlaces Christian theology with queer and feminist theory for both critical and constructive ends. Linn Marie Tonstad uses queer theory to show certain failures of Christian thinking about God, gender, and sexuality. She employs queer theory to dissect trinitarian discourse…

Paperback – 2017-06-30
Routledge
Gender, Theology and Spirituality

By Chris Mounsey

The book explores the preoccupation of key twentieth-century English writers with theology and sexuality and how the Anglican Church has responded and continues to respond to the issue of homosexuality. Analysing the work of Oscar Wilde, E. F. Benson, Edward Carpenter, Jeanette Winterson, and Alan…

Paperback – 2017-06-28
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Gender, Theology and Spirituality

Edited by Anne F. Elvey, Carol Hogan, Kim Power, Claire Renkin

The Eucharist continues to be central to contemporary Christian religious tradition and to be the focus for a wide range of assumptions and disputes. Chief amongst these disputes is the role of women in the theology and the ritual of the Eucharist.Reinterpreting the Eucharist brings together a…

Paperback – 2017-06-16
Routledge
Gender, Theology and Spirituality

By Alan Argent

Elsie Chamberlain was a leading figure in British broadcasting and religious life. She was a pioneer in many areas: the first woman chaplain to the armed forces; the first nonconformist minister to marry an Anglican clergyman; the first woman producer in the religious broadcasting dept of the BBC…

Paperback – 2017-06-16
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Gender, Theology and Spirituality

By Alice M. Sinnott

This book examines the personification of Wisdom as a female figure - a central motif in Proverbs, Job, Sirach, Wisdom and Baruch. Alice M. Sinnott identifies how and why the complex character of Wisdom was introduced into the Israelite tradition, and created and developed by Israelite/Jewish…

Paperback – 2017-05-16
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Society for Old Testament Study

By Mark Vasey-Saunders

English evangelicals give the appearance of being a community at war, with each other and with the world around them. The issue of homosexuality is one of the key battlegrounds. How has this issue become so significant to evangelicals? Why is it provoking such violent responses? How is it changing…

Paperback – 2017-03-31
Routledge

By Sonya Sharma

Edited by Kristin Aune

What is the relationship between women and secularization? In the West, women are abandoning traditional religion. Yet they continue to make up the majority of religious adherents. Accounting for this seeming paradox is the focus of this volume. If women undergird the foundations of religion but…

Paperback – 2017-02-27
Routledge
Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group