Previous edition edited by James B. Nelson and Sandra P. Longfellow.

Includes bibliographical references.

Notes on historical grounding : beyond sexual essentialism / Carter Heyward -- Setting the problem, laying the ground / Judith Plaskow -- Experiencing the body : sexuality and conflict in American Lutheranism / Christian Scharen -- Black and blues : God-talk/body-talk for the Black church / Kelly Brown Douglas -- Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- Sexing Black women : liberation from the prisonhouse of anatomical authority / Katie Geneva Cannon -- Where are we? : seven sinful problems and seven virtuous possibilities / James B. Nelson -- Rethinking sin and grace for LGBT people today / Patrick S. Cheng -- Touching the taboo : on the sexuality of Jesus / Kwok Pui-Lan -- The erosion of sexual dimorphism : challenges to religion and religious ethics / Christine E. Gudorf -- Pain and pleasure : avoiding the confusions of Christian tradition in feminist theory / Beverly Wildung Harrison and Carter Heyward -- Lovingly lesbian : toward a feminist theology of friendship / Mary E. Hunt -- What if it is a choice? : some implications of the homosexuality debates for theology / Laurel C. Schneider -- The construction of the Black male body : eroticism and religion / Dwight N. Hopkins -- Beyond machismo : a Cuban case study / Miguel A. De La Torre -- Reimagining good sex : the eroticizing of mutual respect and pleasure / Marvin M. Ellison -- Making love as making justice : towards a new Jewish ethic of sexuality / Yoel H. Kahn -- Appropriate vulnerability : a sexual ethic for singles / Karen Lebacqz -- Sexuality and social policy / Beverly Wildung Harrison -- Guilty pleasures : when sex is good because it's bad / Rebecca T. Alpert -- A queer fidelity : reinventing Christian marriage / W. Scott Haldeman -- Disruptive bodies : disability, embodiment, and sexuality / Elizabeth Stuart -- AIDS, shame, and suffering / Grace M. Jantzen -- Safer text : reading biblical laments in the age of AIDs / Ken Stone -- Is there life after Roe? : how to think about the fetus / Frances Kissling -- Contested marriage/loving relationality / Kelly Brown Douglas -- A Catholic defense of same-sex marriage / Daniel C. Maguire -- Marriage in a new key / Marvin M. Ellison -- Familiar idolatry and the Christian case against marriage / Dale B. Martin.

""Challenges seminarians, clergy, and other religious leaders with provocative essays by leading theologians. Destined to be core reading at seminaries as we prepare the next generation of sexually healthy and responsible clergy."R︣ev. Debra W. Haffner, Executive Director of the Religious Institute and coauthor of Religion and Sexuality 2020: Goals for the Next Decade" ""Gives much-needed breadth and depth to the discussion of human sexuality and religion."T︣raci C. West, Professor of Ethics and African American Studies, Drew University, and author of Disruptive Christian Ethics" ""The topics are timely and important, and the scholarship assembled speaks from and to diverse social locations."E︣llen T. Armour, Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt Divinity School" ""An important book to know, "E︣milie Townes, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology, Yale Divinity School" "This updated and expanded anthology featuring approximately thirty contemporary essays includes a wonderfully diverse group of theologians and ethicists addressing issues such as the intersection of race/racism and sexuality, transgender identity, same-sex marriage, and reproductive health. The result is an authoritative selection of essential readings about sexuality, spirituality, and social justice." "Marvin M. Ellison teaches Christian ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine and is the author of Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality and Same-Sex Marriage: A Christian Ethical Analysis." "Kelly Brown Douglas is the Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of Religion at Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective."--Jacket.

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