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The Boswell Thesis

Author : Mathew Kuefler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226457419
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Boswell Thesis written by Mathew Kuefler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few books have had the social, cultural, and scholarly impact of John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Arguing that neither the Bible nor the Christian tradition was nearly as hostile to homoeroticism as was generally thought, its initial publication sent shock waves through university classrooms, gay communities, and religious congregations. Twenty-five years later, the aftershocks still reverberate. The Boswell Thesis brings together fifteen leading scholars at the intersection of religious and sexuality studies to comment on this book's immense impact, the endless debates it generated, and the many contributions it has made to our culture. The essays in this magnificent volume examine a variety of aspects of Boswell's interpretation of events in the development of sexuality from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages, including a Roman emperor's love letters to another man; suspicions of sodomy among medieval monks, knights, and crusaders; and the gender-bending visions of Christian saints and mystics. Also included are discussions of Boswell's career, including his influence among gay and lesbian Christians and his role in academic debates between essentialists and social constructionists. Elegant and thought-provoking, this collection provides a fitting twenty-fifth anniversary tribute to the incalculable influence of Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality and its author.

Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Author : Claudia Rapp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195389336
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Brother-making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium written by Claudia Rapp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive treatment of ritual brotherhood in Byzantium, this book challenges the 'Boswell Thesis' and argues that the ecclesiastical ritual to bless a relationship between two men bears no resemblance to marriage, but has its origins in early monasticism.

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing"

Author : Marshall Boswell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628924535
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" written by Marshall Boswell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the twelve books David Foster Wallace published both during his lifetime and posthumously, only three were novels. Nevertheless, Wallace always thought of himself primarily as a novelist. From his college years at Amherst, when he wrote his first novel as part of a creative honors thesis, to his final days, Wallace was buried in a novel project, which he often referred to as "the Long Thing." Meanwhile, the short stories and journalistic assignments he worked on during those years he characterized as "playing hooky from a certain Larger Thing." Wallace was also a specific kind of novelist, devoted to producing a specific kind of novel, namely the omnivorous, culture-consuming "encyclopedic" novel, as described in 1976 by Edward Mendelson in a ground-breaking essay on Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" is a state-of-the art guide through Wallace's three major works, including the generation-defining Infinite Jest. These essays provide fresh new readings of each of Wallace's novels as well as thematic essays that trace out patterns and connections across the three works. Most importantly, the collection includes six chapters on Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King, which will prove to be foundational for future scholars of this important text.

Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film

Author : M. Boswell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230358691
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film written by M. Boswell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human.

Mending Democracy

Author : Carolyn M. Hendriks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198843054
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Mending Democracy written by Carolyn M. Hendriks and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops the idea of democratic mending as a way of advancing a more connective and systemic approach to democratic repair.

Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

Author : John Boswell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679751645
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe written by John Boswell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-05-30 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.

Homosexuality and Civilization

Author : Louis Crompton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674030060
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Homosexuality and Civilization written by Louis Crompton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan. Ancient Greek culture celebrated same-sex love in history, literature, and art, making high claims for its moral influence. By contrast, Jewish religious leaders in the sixth century B.C.E. branded male homosexuality as a capital offense and, later, blamed it for the destruction of the biblical city of Sodom. When these two traditions collided in Christian Rome during the late empire, the tragic repercussions were felt throughout Europe and the New World. Louis Crompton traces Church-inspired mutilation, torture, and burning of sodomites in sixth-century Byzantium, medieval France, Renaissance Italy, and in Spain under the Inquisition. But Protestant authorities were equally committed to the execution of homosexuals in the Netherlands, Calvin's Geneva, and Georgian England. The root cause was religious superstition, abetted by political ambition and sheer greed. Yet from this cauldron of fears and desires, homoerotic themes surfaced in the art of the Renaissance masters--Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Sodoma, Cellini, and Caravaggio--often intertwined with Christian motifs. Homosexuality also flourished in the court intrigues of Henry III of France, Queen Christina of Sweden, James I and William III of England, Queen Anne, and Frederick the Great. Anti-homosexual atrocities committed in the West contrast starkly with the more tolerant traditions of pre-modern China and Japan, as revealed in poetry, fiction, and art and in the lives of emperors, shoguns, Buddhist priests, scholars, and actors. In the samurai tradition of Japan, Crompton makes clear, the celebration of same-sex love rivaled that of ancient Greece. Sweeping in scope, elegantly crafted, and lavishly illustrated, Homosexuality and Civilization is a stunning exploration of a rich and terrible past.

One Hundred Years of Homosexuality

Author : David M Halperin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113660877X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Years of Homosexuality written by David M Halperin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity, Halperin offers an alternative account that accords greater prominence to the indigenous terms in which sexual experiences were constituted in the ancient Mediterranean world. Wittily and provocatively written, Halperin's meticulously drawn windows onto ancient sexuality give us a new meaning to the concept of "Greek love."

Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe

Author : Katherine Allen Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171258
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe written by Katherine Allen Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection builds on the foundational work of Penelope D. Johnson, John Boswell's most influential student outside queer studies, on integration and segregation in medieval Christianity. It documents the multiple strategies by which medieval people constructed identities and, in the process, wove the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion among various individuals and groups. The collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing historical, art historical, and literary perpsectives to explore the definition of personal and communal spaces within medieval texts, the complex negotiation of the relationship between devotee and saint in both the early and the later Middle Ages, the forming of partnerships (symbolic, economic, devotional, etc.) between men and women across medieval Europe's considerable gender divide, and the ostracism of individuals and groups through various means including imprisonment, violence, and their identification with pollution. Contributors include: Diane Peters Auslander, Constance Hoffman Berman, Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Alexandra Cuffel, Anne M. Schuchman, Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, Katherine Allen Smith, Kathryn A. Smith, Christina Roukis-Stern, Susan Valentine, Susan Wade, and Scott Wells.

Stalking Nabokov

Author : Brian Boyd
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231158572
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Stalking Nabokov written by Brian Boyd and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Brian Boyd surveys Vladimir Nabokov's life, career, and legacy; his art, science, and thought; his subtle humor and puzzle-like storytelling; his complex psychological portraits; and his inheritance from, reworking of, and affinities with Shakespeare, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Machado de Assis. Boyd also offers new ways of reading Lolita, Pale Fire, Ada or Ardor, and the unparalleled autobiography, Speak, Memory, disclosing otherwise unknown information about the author's world. Sharing his personal reflections as he recounts the adventures, hardships, and revelations of researching Nabokov's life? oeuvre?, he cautions against using Nabokov's metaphysics as the key to unlocking all of the enigmatic author's secrets. Assessing and appreciating Nabokov as novelist, memoirist, poet, translator, scientist, and individual, Boyd helps us understand more than ever Nabokov's multifaceted genius.

Homosexuality and Christian Faith

Author : Walter Wink
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451419948
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Homosexuality and Christian Faith written by Walter Wink and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for individual or group use, this unique resource presents short pieces from some of the nation's most preeminent church leaders - women and men, Protestant and Catholic, mainline and evangelical - who address fundamental moral imperatives about homosexuality. Through personal testimony, factual clarification, and moral suasion, they invite the reader to open his or her heart to the Spirit, to Gospel values, and to full acceptance of gay and lesbian persons in the "family of God."

Doxology and Theology

Author : Matt Boswell
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433679728
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Doxology and Theology written by Matt Boswell and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond sound equipment and music charts, eleven noted worship leaders from around the United States write about the ministerial part of their work as it relates to the gospel, mission, disciple-making, liturgy, the Trinity, justice, creativity, family, and more.

Women in Texas History

Author : Angela Boswell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623497086
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Women in Texas History written by Angela Boswell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 Liz Carpenter Award, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents a brick in the wall of new Texas history. From early Native societies to astronauts, Women in Texas History assembles those bricks into a carefully crafted structure as the first book to cover the full scope of Texas women’s history. By emphasizing the differences between race and ethnicity, Angela Boswell uses three broad themes to tie together the narrative of women in Texas history. First, the physical and geographic challenges of Texas as a place significantly affected women’s lives, from the struggles of isolated frontier farming to the opportunities and problems of increased urbanization. Second, the changing landscape of legal and political power continued to shape women’s lives and opportunities, from the ballot box to the courthouse and beyond. Finally, Boswell demonstrates the powerful influence of social and cultural forces on the identity, agency, and everyday life of women in Texas. In challenging male-dominated legal and political systems, Texan women shaped (and were shaped by) class, religion, community organizations, literary and artistic endeavors, and more. Women in Texas History is the first book to narrate the entire span of Texas women’s history and marks a major achievement in telling the full story of the Lone Star State. Historians and general readers alike will find this book an informative and enjoyable read for anyone interested in the history of Texas or the history of women.

To Live Like a Moor

Author : Olivia Remie Constable
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249488
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book To Live Like a Moor written by Olivia Remie Constable and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Live Like a Moor traces the many shifts in Christian perceptions of Islam-associated ways of life which took place across the centuries between early Reconquista efforts of the eleventh century and the final expulsions of Spain's converted yet poorly assimilated Morisco population in the seventeenth.

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Author : James Boswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Church and the Homosexual

Author : John J. McNeill
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807079243
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Church and the Homosexual written by John J. McNeill and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "brave and good book which shatters bad myths" (Commonweal), McNeill shows that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality, and argues that the Church must not continue its homophobic practices. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology

Author : Mark D. Jordan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226410401
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology written by Mark D. Jordan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reexamination of what it means to have a tradition, Catholic and otherwise, Mark D. Jordan offers a powerful and provocative study of the sin of erotic love between men. The Invention of Sodomy reveals the theological fabrication of arguments for categorizing genital acts between members of the same sex.