For many people, the words “gay theology”, or even more, “queer theology” sound like a contradiction in terms, but it has been around explicitly for some decades now - and implicitly, according to some theologians, from the very beginning, as Christianity is inherently gender-neutral. I still remember to excitement I felt when I first discovered that such a concept even existed, and have been dazzled and excited as I have continued to explore the work of serious theologians writing from an explicitly gay, lesbian, or queer perspective. This preliminary bibliography is based on Elizabeth Stuart’s book, “Gay and Lesbian Theology: Repetitions with Critical Differences“, which serves to summarize and critique the work of the early writers in gay and lesbian theology, before arguing for a need to move beyond these early frameworks, to “Queer Theology”. The list below uses Stuart’s chapter divisions to provide a rough thematic grouping of the books listed, with some additions of my own to include books published later. This is no more than an initial offering - other titles, especially more recent titles and single articles from periodicals or collections, will be added continually.
There is a great deal that could be written about each of these books, which has for a long time been leaving me unclear how best to handle a comprehensive guide to queer religious books. The approach I have settled on is not to attempt to do everything myself in one place, but instead to settle for copious links to existing sources. The theologian’s name includes a link to basic biographical material on the writer and her’his work. For each book, the title has a link to its Google books page, where you will often find an overview of the book, reviews or links to reviews, and in some cases, contents and previews as well as basic bibliographical details. Should you wish to buy the book, I also include links to Amazon - either Amazon.com, or Amazon.co.uk (for UK and EU readers).
Listing here does not imply that I have personally read a book. However, it does imply that it is recommended or discussed as an important contribution by a source that I trust, and would in time, like to read for myself. For some specific books that I have read myself, I will write about them separately in independent posts - and add links to those posts under the relevant titles. For now, I am concentrating on simply providing some book lists. Later, I will also get to my own interpretations, summaries and readers’ guides.
FOUNDATION TEXT:
Gay & Lesbian Theologies: Repetitions With Critical Difference
(Hampshire UK and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2003)
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THE PIONEERS: GAY & LESBIAN THEOLOGY
GEARHART, SALLY, and JOHNSON, WILLIAM R.
Loving Women / Loving Men: Gay liberation and the church (San Francisco, Glide Publications, 1974)
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MACOURT, MALCOLM
Towards a Theology of Gay Liberation (London, SCM Press, 1977)
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The Church and the Homosexual (Kansas City, Sheed Andrews and McMeed 1976)
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Taking a Chance on God (Boston, Beacon Press, 1988)
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Freedom, Glorious Freedom (Boston, Beacon Press, 1995)
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FORTUNATO, JOHN
Embracing the Exile: Healing Journeys for Gay Christians
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O’NEILL, CRAIG, & RITTER, KATHLEEN
Coming+Out+Within:+Stages+of+Spiritual+Awakening+for+Lesbians+and+Gay+Men
(San Francisco, Harper, 1992)
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Coming Out as Sacrament (Louisville, Westminster /John Knox Press, 1998)
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Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus and the Bible (San Francisco, Harper San Francisco, 1995)
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GAY LIBERATION THEOLOGY (Mostly male)
CLARK, J MICHAEL
A Place to Start Towards an Unapologetic Gay Liberation Theology (Dallas, Monument Press, 1989)
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A Defiant Celebration: Theological Ethics and Gay Sexuality (Garland: Tanglewuld Press, 1990)
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Beyond Our Ghettos: Gay Theology in Ecological Perspective (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1993)
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Defying the Darkness: Gay Theology in the Shadows (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1997)
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COMSTOCK, GARY
Gay Theology Without Apology(Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1993)
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CLEAVER, RICHARD
Know My Name: A Gay Liberation Theology (Louisville. Westminster John Knox Press, 1995)
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SPENCER, DANIEL T.
Gay and Gaia: Ethics, Ecology, and the Erotic ((Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1996)
RAMBUSS, RICHARD
Closet Devotions (Durham and London, Duke University Press, 1998)
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EROTIC THEOLOGY (Mostly Feminist)
Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God (San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1989)
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Saving Jesus From Those Who Are Right: Rethinking What it Means to Be a Christian (Minneapolis, Fortress Press ,1999)
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Sensuous Spirituality: out From Fundamentalism (New York, Crossroads, 1993)
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Fierce Tenderness: A FeminIst Theology of Friendship (New York, Crossroads, 1991)
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Just Good Friends: Towards a Theology of Lesbian and Gay Relationships (London, Mowbray, 1995)
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THE START OF QUEER THEOLOGY
GOSS, ROBERT
Jesus Acted Up: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto (San Francisco, Harper San Francisco, 1993)
VASEY, M
A New Exploration of Homosexuality and the Bible (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1995)
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RUDY, KATHY
Sex and the Church: Gender, Homosexuality, and the Transformation of Christian Ethics (Boston, Beacon Press, 1997)
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ROGERS, EUGENE F
Sexuality and the Christian Body: Their Way Into the Triune God.(Oxford and Malden: Blackwell, 1999)
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ALISON, JAMES
Faith Beyond Resentment (London, Darton, Longman Todd, 2001)
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On Being Liked (London, Darton, Longman Todd, 2004)
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Undergoing God (London, Darton, Longman Todd, 2007)
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Broken Hearts (London, Darton, Longman Todd, 2010)
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WARD, GRAHAM
Bodies: The Displaced Body of Jesus Christ (in Millbank, Pickstock and Ward, “Radical Orthodoxy, a New Theology”,Routledge, 1999 )
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Omnigender: A Trans-Religious Approach (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2001)
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Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics (London and New York, Routledge, 2001)
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Queer God
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