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by Mark D. Jordan
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Author: Mark D. Jordan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 1 edition (May 1, 1997)
Language: English
Pages: 200
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Category: History
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The Invention of Sodomy reveals the theological fabrication of arguments for categorizing genital acts between members .
Mark D. Jordan is the Reverend Priscilla Wood Neaves Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University. He was previously the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University and also taught at the University of Notre Dame and Emory University
This book is for everyone involved in the ongoing debate within organized religions and society in general over moral .
This book is for everyone involved in the ongoing debate within organized religions and society in general over moral judgments of same-sex eroticism. A crucial contribution to our understanding of the tortured and tortuous relationship between men who love men, and the Christian religion-indeed, between our kind and Western society as a whole. In this startling original work of historical detection, Mark D. Jordan explores the invention of Sodomy by medieval Christendom, examining its conceptual foundations in theology and gauging its impact on Christian sexual ethics both then and now. Jordan (b. 1953/54) is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies
Mark D. 1953/54) is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. He is currently the Andrew Mellon Professor of Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. At Harvard, he teaches courses on the Western traditions of Christian theology, the relations of religion to art or literature, and the prospects for sexual ethics.
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The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society
The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society. This book is for everyone involved in the ongoing debate within organized religions and society in general over moral judgments of same-sex eroticism.
A scholarly critique of how the term & arose in the Middle Ages and came to influence Roman Catholic moral .
A scholarly critique of how the term & arose in the Middle Ages and came to influence Roman Catholic moral discourse. Although the story of Sodom and Gomorrah is at least as old as the book of Genesis, the view of sodomy as a form of sexual sin seems to have been invented in the 11th century by the Italian ascetic St. Peter Damian.
In this startling original work of historical detection, Mark D. Jordan explores the invention of Sodomy by medieval .