Unrepentant, Self-Affirming, Practicing: Lesbian/Bisexual/Gay People Within Organized Religion - Hardcover

Comstock, Gary David

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9780826408815: Unrepentant, Self-Affirming, Practicing: Lesbian/Bisexual/Gay People Within Organized Religion

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ISBN 10: 0826408818 ISBN 13: 9780826408815

Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 1996

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Based on twenty-seven recent empirical studies of gay people in organized religion and another ten "religion-related" studies, Unrepentant, Self-Affirming, Practicing provides the most comprehensive examination to date of the place of gay people within religious communities.

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About the Author:

Gary David Comstock is Protestant chaplain and visiting assistant professor of sociology at Wesleyan University.

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"Explores how each religions accepts, half-accepts, or rejects gays and lesbians and how they themselves feel about their religion. The book is also filled with personal stories of how spiritual people who discovered they are homosexual came out within their community and their congregation, and how they feel about the central figures and tenets of their belief."—Gatherings

"Publishers’ catalogues are full of books on the church’s view of homosexuality; Comstock here offers gay views of the church. Given the often hostile environment, he asks why gay people stay in religious institutions. Using social scientific methods, he summarizes thirty-six surveys of gay attitudes toward religious communities, including Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, and Native American traditions. He adds data from his survey of gay people in two mainline Protestant denominations." (Religious Studies Review)

"With its succinct, accessible language and rich collection of empirical research findings on lesbigay peoples, Unrepentant, Self-Affirming Practicing, would be an excellent addition to academic libraries and could be appropriately used as well in an undergraduate religion or sociology classroom." (Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion)

"Publishers’ catalogues are full of books on the church’s view of homosexuality; Comstock here offers gay views of the church. Given the often hostile environment, he asks why gay people stay in religious institutions. Using social scientific methods, he summarizes thirty-six surveys of gay attitudes toward religious communities, including Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, and Native American traditions. He adds data from his survey of gay people in two mainline Protestant denominations."—Religious Studies Review

"For open-minded religious leaders, there are nuggets of enlightenment in this ecumenical array."—Publishers Weekly

"With its succinct, accessible language and rich collection of empirical research findings on lesbigay peoples, Unrepentant, Self-Affirming Practicing, would be an excellent addition to academic libraries and could be appropriately used as well in an undergraduate religion or sociology classroom."—Journal for Scientific Study of Religion

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