Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth CenturyUniversity of Chicago Press, 10 dec 2015 - 440 pagina's “What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content . . . but its revolutionary challenge to . . . Western culture’s most familiar moral assumptions.” —Newsweek John Boswell’s National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published thirty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell’s research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Now in this thirty-fifth anniversary edition with a new foreword by leading queer and religious studies scholar Mark D. Jordan, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality is still fiercely relevant. This landmark book helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force. “Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition.” —Michel Foucault “Revolutionary. . . .sets a standard of excellence that one would have thought impossible in the treatment of an issue so large, uncharted and vexed. . . . Improbably as it might seem, this work of unrelenting scholarship and high intellectual drama is also thoroughly entertaining.” —New York Times Book Review “One day, when all churches accept the presence and achievements of gay people with approbation instead of denial or disapproval, Boswell will in no small way be responsible.” —Gay & Lesbian Review |
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... appear. I suggest instead that having a strong historical narrative, especially one that disconcerts received views, is a great gift to scholarly posterity. It is also important to remember that Boswell's historical narrative is only a ...
... appear. I suggest instead that having a strong historical narrative, especially one that disconcerts received views, is a great gift to scholarly posterity. It is also important to remember that Boswell's historical narrative is only a ...
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... appears as a new Savior who will rescue them not only from queer-hating religionists, but from gay liberation secularists as well.”9 I would reverse the accusation: Boswell's book offers help also to movement activists who mistakenly ...
... appears as a new Savior who will rescue them not only from queer-hating religionists, but from gay liberation secularists as well.”9 I would reverse the accusation: Boswell's book offers help also to movement activists who mistakenly ...
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... appear on the mosaic floors or painted walls of our banquet rooms? One last thing: CSTH is often cited as a salient example of a work of scholarship that achieved political effects. It did indeed. But we should notice again what the ...
... appear on the mosaic floors or painted walls of our banquet rooms? One last thing: CSTH is often cited as a salient example of a work of scholarship that achieved political effects. It did indeed. But we should notice again what the ...
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... appears to be the most constructive effort possible at present. It has, moreover, the compensating advantage of allowing the data assembled to be employed within any larger theoretical framework, historical or scientific, current or ...
... appears to be the most constructive effort possible at present. It has, moreover, the compensating advantage of allowing the data assembled to be employed within any larger theoretical framework, historical or scientific, current or ...
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... appears to be injust such a period of transition regarding various groups distinguished sexually, and gay people provide a particularly useful focus for the study of the history of such attitudes." Since they are still the objects of ...
... appears to be injust such a period of transition regarding various groups distinguished sexually, and gay people provide a particularly useful focus for the study of the history of such attitudes." Since they are still the objects of ...
Inhoudsopgave
II The Christian Tradition | 89 |
III Shifting Fortunes | 167 |
IV The Rise of Intolerance | 267 |
Lexicography and Saint Paul | 335 |
Texts and Translations | 355 |
Frequently Cited Works | 403 |
Index of Greek Terms | 411 |
General Index | 413 |
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western ... John Boswell Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2009 |
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western ... John Boswell Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2015 |
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