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List of Contributors | |
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Forewood | |
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Methods and Sources | |
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Introduction | |
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Notes on Historical Grounding: Beyond Sexual Essentialism | |
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Setting the Problem, Laying the Ground | |
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Experiencing the Body: Sexuality and Conflict in American Lutheranism | |
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Black and Blues: God-Talk/Body-Talk for the Black Church | |
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Sexuality and Spirituality | |
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Introduction | |
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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power | |
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Sexing Black Women: Liberation from the Prisonhouse of Anatomical Authority | |
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Where Are We? Seven Sinful Problems and Seven Virtuous Possibilities | |
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Rethinking Sin and Grace for LGBT People Today | |
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Touching the Taboo: On the Sexuality of Jesus | |
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Gender, Race, and Sexual Identities | |
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Introduction | |
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The Erosion of Sexual Dimorphism: Challenges to Religion and Religious Ethics | |
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Pain and Pleasure: Avoiding the Confusions of Christian Tradition in Feminist Theory | |
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Lovingly Lesbian: Toward a Feminist Theology of Friendship | |
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What If It Is a Choice? Some Implications of the Homosexuality Debates for Theology | |
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The Construction of the Black Male Body: Eroticism and Religion | |
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Beyong Machismo: A Cuban Case Study | |
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Rethinking Sexual Ethics | |
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Introduction | |
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Reimagining Good Sex: The Eroticizing of Mutual Respect and Pleasure | |
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Making Love as Making Justice: Towards a New Jewish Ethic of Sexuality | |
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Appropriate Vulnerability: A Sexual Ethic for Singles | |
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Sexuality and Social Policy | |
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Guilty Pleasures: When Sex Is Good Because It's Bad | |
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A Queer Fidelity: Reinventing Christian Marriage | |
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Sexual Health and Bodily Integrity | |
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Introduction | |
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Disruptive Bodies: Disability, Embodiment, and Sexuality | |
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AIDS, Shame, and Suffering | |
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Safer Text: Reading Biblical Laments in the Age of AIDS | |
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Is There Life after Roe? How to Think about the Fetus | |
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Marriage Equality: A Test Case for the Church | |
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Introduction | |
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Contested Marriage/Loving Relationality | |
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A Catholic Defense of Same-Sex Marriage | |
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Marriage in a New Key | |
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Familiar Idolatry and the Christian Case against Marriage | |
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Acknowledgments | |