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Wrestling with the angel : faith and religion in the lives of gay men / edited by Brian Bouldrey.
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English
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New York : Riverhead Books, 1995.
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xiii, 314 pages ; 25 cm
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BR115.H6 W74 1995
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Homosexuality
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Homosexuality
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Religious aspects
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Judaism
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Homosexuality
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Gay men
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Religious life
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United States
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Bouldrey, Brian
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Summary note
In Wrestling with the Angel, twenty-one authors - gay men who are Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, and Mormon - explore in moving and powerful essays the paradox at the center of their faiths: If God creates each of us in His own image, then how can that image be "wrong"? In vivid descriptions of their paths toward spiritual and sexual identity, such eloquent contributors as David Plante, Mark Doty, Lev Raphael, Alfred Corn, Andrew Holleran, Frank Browning, Michael Nava, Brad Gooch, Fenton Johnson, and Felice Picano reveal the joys and frustrations of communicating with one's excommunicator or, in some cases, of constructing a faith of one's own. Heightened by the urgency of this brutal age of AIDS, their essays are both intensely personal and partisan. They rise off the page like rambunctious prayers, reflecting not only the spiritual hunger brought on by the new millennium, but also the fact that we can no more choose our God than we can our sexuality.
Contents
Sweet chariot / Mark Doty
My father's house / Don Belton
To be a Jew / Lev Raphael
Naming the addiction / Vestal McIntyre
Saved / James Morrison
The sense of sin / Andrew Holleran
The way of some flesh / Frank Browning
Chain of fools / Kevin Killian
Trying grace / D.G. Miller
The way the stars come home / Peter M. Krask
Images of the body from my religion / David Plante
Coming out and born again / Michael Nava
Bamidbar / Gabriel Lampert
A Christian is someone who's met one / Brad Gooch
What is the sexual orientation of a Christian? / Alfred Corn
Searching for real words / Philip Gambone
God, gays, and the geography of desire / Fenton Johnson
Saying kaddish for Peter / Michael Lowenthal
AIDS : the new crucible of faith / Felice Picano
Personal dichotomies / Antonio Feliz
The exorcism of mother and son / Mark Matousek.
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ISBN
1573220035 ((acid-free paper))
9781573220033 ((acid-free paper))
1573225452 ((pbk.))
9781573225458 ((pbk.))
LCCN
94044307
OCLC
31607005
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