Wrestling with the angel : faith and religion in the lives of gay men / edited by Brian Bouldrey
- Bib ID:
- 664292
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- New York : Riverhead Books, 1995
- xiii, 314 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1573220035 (acid-free paper)
- Summary:
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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.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction / Brian Bouldrey
- 1. Sweet Chariot / Mark Doty
- 2. My Father's House / Don Belton
- 3. To Be a Jew / Lev Raphael
- 4. Naming the Addiction / Vestal McIntyre
- 5. Saved / James Morrison
- 6. The Sense of Sin / Andrew Holleran
- 7. The Way of Some Flesh / Frank Browning
- 8. Chain of Fools / Kevin Killian
- 9. Trying Grace / D. G. Miller
- 10. The Way the Stars Come Home / Peter M. Krask
- 11. Images of the Body From My Religion / David Plante
- 12. Coming Out and Born Again / Michael Nava
- 13. Bamidbar / Gabriel Lampert
- 14. A Christian Is Someone Who's Met One / Brad Gooch
- 15. What is the Sexual Orientation of a Christian? / Alfred Corn
- 16. Searching for Real Words / Philip Gambone
- 17. God, Gays, and the Geography of Desire / Fenton Johnson
- 18. Saying Kaddish for Peter / Michael Lowenthal
- 19. AIDS: The New Crucible of Faith / Felice Picano
- 20. Personal Dichotomies / Antonio Feliz
- 21. The Exorcism of Mother and Son / Mark Matousek.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Bouldrey, Brian
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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