Religion and Sexuality

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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 relationship in social, theological and political contexts. 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