Unrepentant, Self-Affirming, Practicing: Lesbian/Bisexual/Gay People Within Organized Religion Contributor(s): Comstock, Gary David (Author) |
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ISBN: 082641429X ISBN-13: 9780826414298 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $44.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2002 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science |
Dewey: 261.835 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.7" (0.95 lbs) 282 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Praise for Unrepentant ...: - San Francisco Chronicle A significant body of knowledge. - Theology Today Publishers' catalogues are full of books on the church's view of homosexuality; Comstock here offers gay views of the church. Given the often hostile environment, he asks why gay people stay in religious institutions. Using social scientific methods, he summarizes thirty-six surveys of gay attitudes toward religious communities, including Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, and Native American traditions. He adds data from his survey of gay people in two mainline Protestant denominations. --Religious Studies Review Explores how each religions accepts, half-accepts, or rejects gays and lesbians and how they themselves feel about their religion. The book is also filled with personal stories of how spiritual people who discovered they are homosexual came out within their community and their congregation, and how they feel about the central figures and tenets of their belief. --Gatherings With its succinct, accessible language and rich collection of empirical research findings on lesbigay peoples, Unrepentant, Self-Affirming Practicing, would be an excellent addition to academic libraries and could be appropriately used as well in an undergraduate religion or sociology classroom. --Journal for Scientific Study of Religion |