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| List of Contributors | |
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| Forewood | |
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| Introductionxix | |
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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 | |