Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
Subtitle: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, 35th Anniversary Edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780226345222
Subjects: Homosexuality, religious aspects, christianity; Europe, social conditions
Description: From the publisher -- John Boswell’s National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church’s past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published thirty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell’s research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history.

Now in this thirty-fifth anniversary edition with a new foreword by leading queer and religious studies scholar Mark D. Jordan, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality is still fiercely relevant. This landmark book helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
Notes: 35th Anniversary Edition
Table of contents: title: Illustrations; title: Abbreviations; title: Foreword to Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Edition; title: Preface; title: Part I: Points of Departure; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Definitions; title: 3. Rome: The Foundation; title: Part II: The Christian Tradition; title: 4. The Scriptures; title: 5. Christians and Social Change; title: 6. Theological Traditions; title: Part III: Shifting Fortunes; title: 7. The Early Middle Ages; title: 8. The Urban Revival; title: 9. The Triumph of Ganymede: Gay Literature of the High Middle Ages; title: Part IV: The Rise of Intolerance; title: 10. Social Change: Making Enemies; title: 11. Intellectual Change: Men, Beasts, and “Nature”; title: 12. Conclusions; title: Appendix 1. Lexicography and Saint Paul; title: Appendix 2. Texts and Translations; title: Frequently Cited Works; title: Index of Greek Terms; title: General Index