Religion and Sexuality [Hardcover]

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.

Foreword
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction

PAST
1. Modem Philosophy and Ancient Consciousness: I Think, Therefore Am I Gendered?Arthur Gibson
2. Woman, 'Sin' and 'Lust': The Fall of Adam and Eve According to Classical and Modem Muslim ExegesisSimonetta Calderini
3. Human and Divine Sexuality: TheZoharon Genesis 5.2John Elwolde
4. Cohabitation or Conflict: Greek Household Management and ChristianHaustafeln Y.C. Whang
5. ?a???: A Word about Women, Music and Sensuality in the ChurchWendy J. Porter
6. 'It's in the Book': Using the Bible in Discussions of Human SexualityCarol Smith
7. 'My Joy, my Love, my Heart': Sexuality and the Poems of George HerbertPat Pinsent
8. Sexuality, Spirituality and Ecstatic Communion in the Short Fiction of Kate ChopinJanet Beer
9. 'O Come All Ye Faithful': Orgasm, Asceticism and the Rhetoric of Self-Abandonment in de Sade, Bataille and UpdikeKevin McCarron

PRESENT
10. The Gendered Body of the Jewish JesusGraham Ward
11. Virgins and Vessels: Feminist Reflections on Dominant Models of SpiritualityBeverley Clack
12. Reading for Pleasure/Reading for Pain: Feminist Reflections on the Passion Narrative in John's GospelAlison Jasper
13. Thealogy and the Parthenogenetic Reproduction of FemalenessMelissa Raphael
14. Method, Metaphor and Mammaries: The Ideology of Feminist
New Testament CriticismBrook W.R. Pearson
15. Sexuality and Spirituality: Embattled Enemies or Kissing Cousins?Michael A. Hayes
16. Machismo and lÃÕ