Religion and Sexuality

Michael A. Hayes is President of Mary Immaculate College, Ireland, and editor of The Pastoral Review. Wendy Porter is Director of Music and Worship at McMaster Divinity College, Canada.David Tombs is Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at University of Otago, New Zealand.

• ForewordAbbreviationsList of ContributorsIntroductionPAST1. Modem Philosophy and Ancient Consciousness: I Think, Therefore Am I Gendered? Arthur Gibson2. Woman, 'Sin' and 'Lust': The Fall of Adam and Eve According to Classical and Modem Muslim Exegesis Simonetta Calderini3. Human and Divine Sexuality: The Zohar on Genesis 5.2 John Elwolde4. Cohabitation or Conflict: Greek Household Management and Christian Haustafeln Y.C. Whang5. ?a???: A Word about Women, Music and Sensuality in the Church Wendy J. Porter6. 'It's in the Book': Using the Bible in Discussions of Human Sexuality Carol Smith7. 'My Joy, my Love, my Heart': Sexuality and the Poems of George Herbert Pat Pinsent8. Sexuality, Spirituality and Ecstatic Communion in the Short Fiction of Kate Chopin Janet Beer9. 'O Come All Ye Faithful': Orgasm, Asceticism and the Rhetoric of Self-Abandonment in de Sade, Bataille and Updike Kevin McCarronPRESENT10. The Gendered Body of the Jewish Jesus Graham Ward11. Virgins and Vessels: Feminist Reflections on Dominant Models of Spirituality Beverley Clack12. Reading for Pleasure/Reading for Pain: Feminist Reflections on the Passion Narrative in John's Gospel Alison Jasper13. Thealogy and the Parthenogenetic Reproduction of Femaleness Melissa Raphael14. Method, Metaphor and Mammaries: The Ideology of FeministNew Testament Criticism Brook W.R. Pearson15. Sexuality and Spirituality: Embattled Enemies or Kissing Cousins? Michael A. Hayes16. Machismo and Marianismo: Liberation Theology and Sexuality David Tombs17. Catholics: Sexuality and Death in the Novels of Brian Moore Liam Gearon18. Carpe-phallum: (Male) Salvation Meta-Narrative and the Renewal Steve Nolan19. The Problem of Sexual Abuse in New-and Old-Religions Elizabeth Puttick20. Neither Seen nor Heard nor Wanted: The Child as Problematic. Towards an Actuarial Theology of Generation Jon DaviesFUTURE21. Body Politics: A Thealogical Issue? Lisa Isherwood22. 'Glorify God in your Body' (1 Corinthians 6.20): Thinking Theologically about Sexuality Stephen Barton23. An Ecological Approach to the Quest for New Horizons in the Christian View of Sexuality Frederik B. O. Nel24. Refiguring Masculinity in Christ Gerard Loughlin25 Beginning Marriage: Two Traditions Adrian ThatcherIndex of ReferencesIndex of Authors