Christian Mysticism’s Queer Flame

Christian Mysticism’s Queer Flame
Author: Michael Bernard Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1351357174

Is the Christian mystical tradition a relic of another time, shaped by celibates for celibates, unable to engage meaningfully with people of our time who embrace their corporeality and sexuality as crucial aspects of their journey towards union with God? This book reflects in serious theological depth and detail on the spiritual and sexual journeys of gay men of mature and committed Christian faith, employing the Christian mystical tradition as the lens and the interlocutor in this process. This study examines the major themes and stages of the mystical tradition as outlined by Evelyn Underhill, but also including more recent work by Ruth Burrows, Thomas Merton and Constance Fitzgerald. Using methods of qualitative research, it then considers the texts of in-depth interviews conducted with men, most of whom are theologians or spiritual leaders with a deep Catholic faith, and all of whom are openly, self-affirmingly gay. Finally, it employs Ricoeur’s hermeneutical theory to engage in a creative theological conversation between the traditional mystical stages and themes and these men’s lives, as described in their interviews. This is a unique study that brings together ancient spirituality with contemporary lived religion. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of religious studies, theology, Christian mysticism and spirituality, and queer studies. It will be of particular interest to those teach spiritual direction and to all who seek new ways to engage with the spiritual lives of LGBTIQ+ people.

Queer God de Amor

Queer God de Amor
Author: Miguel H. Díaz
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2022-09-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1531502490

Queer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical union with God and the metaphor of sexual relationship that he uses to describe this union. Juan’s mystical theology, which highlights the notion of God as lover and God’s erotic-like relationship with human persons, provides a fitting source for rethinking the Christian doctrine of God, in John’s own words, as “un no sé qué,” “an I know not what.” In critical conversations with contemporary queer theologies, it retrieves from John a preferential option for human sexuality as an experience in daily life that is rich with possibilities for re-sourcing and imagining the Christian doctrine of God. Consistent with other liberating perspectives, it outs God from heteronormative closets and restores human sexuality as a resource for theology. This outing of divine queerness—that is, the ineffability of divine life—helps to align reflections on the mystery of God with the faith experiences of queer Catholics. By engaging Juan de la Cruz through queer Latinx eyes, Miguel Díaz continues the objective of this series to disrupt the cartography of theology latinamente.

Queer Gothic

Queer Gothic
Author: George E. Haggerty
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2006
Genre: Gothic revival (Literature)
ISBN: 0252073533

George Haggerty examines the ways in which gothic fiction centers on loss as the foreclosure of homoerotic possibility and the relationship between transgressive sexual behaviors and a range of religious behaviors understood as 'Catholic'.

The Horror Reader

The Horror Reader
Author: Ken Gelder
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415213554

The Horror Reader brings together 29 key articles to explore the enduring resonance of horror in popular culture.

A Hotter Fire: An Age-Gap Assured Elites Gay Romance

A Hotter Fire: An Age-Gap Assured Elites Gay Romance
Author: Parker Avrile
Publisher: Paris April Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018-02-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In this steamy MM romance that proves it's never too late for love, Assured Elites faces its toughest challenge yet when hired to pair a workaholic celebrity surgeon with his perfect match Pop singer Mikel loves brilliant older men. He's having trouble meeting his celebrity crush, but he knows the matchmaking service can put the two of them together. So why do they insist he try a date with the hot doctor instead? This Curt guy is miles out of his league. Topflight neurosurgeon Curt can save lives, but he can't seem to find that fabled work/life balance. There's never time for love. His coworkers take matters into their own hands and sign him up with Assured Elites. A sparky date or two with a young pop star could show Curt there's more to life than long hours in the emergency room. Everybody knows Curt and Mikel are made for each other. Everybody except them. A Hotter Flame is a steamy romance that features an age gap, a doctor with gifted hands, and a mysterious store that can disappear in a cloud of fog at a moment's notice. Always a guaranteed happy ending, and absolutely no cheating or cliffhangers. Each novel in the Assured Elites series deals with a different couple. Feel free to start anywhere and to read them in any order: *A Fiercer Heat (Book #1) *A Higher Flame (Book #2) *A Hotter Fire (Book #3) *Flaming (Book #4) *Blazing (Book #5) Perfect for fans of Sloane Kennedy and Riley Hart.

Queer exceptions

Queer exceptions
Author: Stephen Greer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2018-11-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1526113724

Queer exceptions is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. With diverse case studies featuring the work of La Ribot, David Hoyle, Oreet Ashery, Bridget Christie, Tanja Ostojic, Adrian Howells and Nassim Soleimanpour, the book examines the role of singular or ‘exceptional’ subjects in constructing and challenging assumed notions of communal sociability and togetherness, while drawing fresh insight from the fields of sociology, gender studies and political philosophy to reconsider theatre’s attachment to singular lives and experiences. Framed by a detailed exploration of arts festivals as encapsulating the material, entrepreneurial circumstances of contemporary performance-making, this is the first major critical study of solo work since the millennium.

Touch This Fire (A Gay M/M Romance)

Touch This Fire (A Gay M/M Romance)
Author: S.E. Loveless
Publisher: S.E. Loveless
Total Pages: 196
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

He burst through the smoke, larger than life. The fireman who would be my savior. He hoisted me over his shoulder, and stole me back from the molten jaws of death. Shawn was his name. And when he set me down outside, smoke bellowing out of every window of the building behind him, he took off his mask, and my heart stopped dead. Those eyes… those beautiful eyes pierced me. Looked right through me. Looked right into me. He told me I would be alright, and then stormed back into the building, a tornado of a man. Shawn looked every bit the hero. But when they carried him out of the building, blackened and hurt, and sent him careening away in an ambulance… The heart that he had stopped with those arresting eyes stopped again. I had to find him. I had to tell him thank you. Maybe I could help him. Little did I know that I would fall in love with him… …and that he would fall in love with me.

As Long as We Both Shall Love

As Long as We Both Shall Love
Author: Karen M. Dunak
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0814760449

In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways in which the modern wedding epitomizes a diverse and consumerist culture and aims to reveal an ongoing debate about the power of peer culture, media, and the marketplace in America.