The Silence of Sodom - Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism

A 2000 Lambda Literary Award Finalist
The past decade has seen homosexual scandals in the Catholic Church becoming ever more visible, and the Vatican's directives on homosexuality becoming ever more forceful, begging the question Mark Jordan tries to answer here: how can the Catholic Church be at once so homophobic and so homoerotic? His analysis is a keen and readable study of the tangled relationship between male homosexuality and modern Catholicism.

About the author

Mark D. Jordan is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion at Emory University. His book The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology, also published by the University of Chicago Press, won the 1998 John Boswell Prize of the American Historical Association.

Summary

This analysis of the relationship between male homosexuality and Catholicism examines the Church's language about sexual morality and the rhetorical devices used to actively produce silence about the topic. The author draws analogies between clerical institutions and gay culture.

Product details

• Authors: Mark D. Jordan, Mark D. (Emory University) Jordan, Jordan Mark D.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2002
• EAN: 9780226410432
• ISBN: 978-0-226-41043-2
• No. of pages: 342
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Christianity, Religion & beliefs, Gay & Lesbian studies, Sociology & anthropology, Religion and beliefs, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Sociology and anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Christian social thought & activity, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics