This ground-breaking and eye-opening book examines the intersections of religion and same-sex desire, from St. Augustine to Hinduism to contemporary LGBT and queer culture.
Queer Religion provides a systematic and detailed overview of the challenges and issues that the intersections of religion, same-sex desire, and gender variance have generated, both now and in the past. It focuses upon the development of these areas of overlap through three distinct historical periods: modern religious history, LGBT liberation movements, and the emergence of queer theory and analysis.
This two-volume collection of eclectic essays investigates the experiences of queer people and religion, providing a broad, unique, and invaluable analysis of this important cultural and theological encounter. As a group, the contributors offer brave insights and diverse perspectives on a variety of topics dealing with religion, same-sex desire, and gender expression. Some of these essays are explicitly historical in focus or scholarly articles, while others provide autobiographical viewpoints and personal reminiscences. This book provides a comprehensive look at the queer dimensions of religious practice and belief-essential reading for religious scholars; those within the LGBT community; and anyone interested in human spirituality and sexuality.

Donald L. Boisvert teaches in the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, where he is also a member of the sexuality studies program.
Jay Emerson Johnson is a priest in the Episcopal Church (USA) and member of the core doctoral faculty at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.

VOLUME II
LGBT MOVEMENTS AND QUEERING RELIGION
Introduction to Volume II
Jay Emerson Johnson
1 Becoming Undone and Becoming Human: Sexual and Religious Selves in the Thought of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler
John Blevins
2 Erotic Conversion: Coming Out of Christian Erotophobia
Paul J. Gorrell
3 Lesbian Feminist Pioneers in Religion
Mary E. Hunt
4 Listening to the Passion of Catholic nu-tongzhi: Developing a Catholic Lesbian Feminist Theology in Hong Kong
Lai-shan Yip
5 Man-Boy and Daddy-God: A Sacred S/M Reading of Ezekiel's Call to Prophecy
David Dunn Bauer
6 Sadomasochism and Spirituality: A Queerly Religious Challenge to the Gay Marriage Paradigm
Patrick Califia
7 Not Just a Phase: Single Black Women in the Black Church
Kuukua Dzigbordi Yomekpe
8 What Race is Your Sex?
Laurel C. Schneider
9 Toward a Queer Theology of Flourishing: Transsexual Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Moral Agency
Jakob Hero
10 The Baklâ: Gendered Religious Performance in Filipino Cultural Spaces
Michael Sepidoza Campos
11 Of Bodily Anamnesis: Postcolonial, Queer, Religious Analysis
Heike Peckruhn
12 God, Sex, and Popular Culture: The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Lady Gaga
Richard Lindsay
13 Queer Theory and the Study of Religion
Melissa M. Wilcox
Index
About the Editors and Contributors