Emerging as Affirmative Pastoral Caregivers Beyond Gender Binaries

Craig A. Rubano received his Ph.D. in Pastoral Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary.

• List of IllustrationsPart I: A Place on Earth: Introducing LGBTQ+ HeterogeneityChapter 1: Getting StartedChapter 2: LGBTQ+: Terminologies and HistoriesPart II: Transgender Survey, Components of Gender, and Knowing the “True Gender Self”Chapter 3: The 2015 US Transgender Survey (USTS) ReportChapter 4: Exploring Four Components of Gender: The Genderbread Person ReduxChapter 5: “Where Do the Mermaids Stand?”Part III: Strategies of Resilience: Opening Doors to a Gender Affirmative Pastoral TheologyChapter 6: Gender Creative ResilienceChapter 7: Psychology of Religion: Ally to Gender Affirmative Pastoral TheologyChapter 8: Beyond Empathy in Pastoral TheologyPart IV: “Yet I Say Unto You”: Gender Creative Biblical Interpretation as Affirmative Pastoral ActionChapter 9: Towards a Gender Creative Lens on Biblical InterpretationChapter 10: Principles for Delivering Affirmative Pastoral Caregiving Beyond Gender BinariesChapter 11: Gender Creative Pastoral Caregiving: Skills of the Canaanite WomanBibliographyAbout the Author

At last, we have in Beyond Gender Binaries an all-out pastoral theology suitable for countering rightwing operatives who, for purposes of political survival or clerical gain, demonize gender-creative young people and adults. Craig Rubano weaves meticulous research in the social sciences with fresh biblical insight, searing honesty, and abounding compassion into a seamless foray into anomalies of gender in all persons. This brave and subversive book arrives in the nick of time.