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Title: The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism by Mark D. Jordan ISBN: 0-226-41043-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (15 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church in 2000
Comment: For those of you who have read Boswell's two epics "Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality" and "Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe," this book doesn't present anything 'new,' in terms of scriptural translations/interprestations per se. However, it is probably one of the few recent books I've seen which focuses on the plight of homosexuality exclusively in the Catholic Church. The author discusses several of the Vatican documents(1975, 1986,1992)on homosexuality as well as the American Bishops letter of 1997-8. What is most striking in his approach is Jordan's breakdown of the rhetoric of the Catholic Church. In order to better understand what the Church's statements themselves mean, Jordan enables the reader by breaking down the layers of 'silence' by the church: their background, and the rhetoric used to maintain the status quo. Stylistically, parts of the text seemed fragmentary. It did not help that almost every paragraph was separated by little ____ dividers, which distracted this reader to the overall thought process. Jordan borrows and builds on several notions from Sedgwick's "Epistemology of the Closet." I found the chapter on the 'Liturgy Queen' and Clerical Drag quite amusing. For a book focusing on 'catholic' issues with homosexuality, the last chapter offers the most promise by describing the possibilities of living as a lesbigay Catholic. Overall I'd give the book between 3 and 4 stars (3 and a half, if there was the option).
Rating: 5
Summary: A challenge to gay Catholics
Comment: Mark Jordon's book does an adequate job of discussing the systematic Catholic language that does now allow for disagreement or dissent. Beyond that Jordan reveals how homerotic the liturgy and the beauracracy of the Church is. Jordan then challenges to begin a new Catholic community. Not a community such as Dignity, but one in which a new language and a new way of saying homosexual can become the foundation of a new teaching.
For some Gay Catholics, who wish to stay within the church, this may seem like whistling past the cemetery. But it may be the only way one can move the Catholic Church, albeit probably through another milennium, into not only the recognition that its basis is homoerotic, but to embrace it as well.
One wonders, though, how this community begins. Where are the writers, the liturgists, the theologians? The only other answer for gay Catholics is to find another denomination or marginal quasi Christian group.
Jordon's idea may be quite exciting.
Rating: 1
Summary: More Catholic Church bashing!
Comment: I can't believe that anyone would believe this nonsense! This is the kind of book that may be praised by homosexuals who are trying to convince us that perverted behavior is good instead of evil, but it belongs in the trash with the rest of the garbage!
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Title: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History and Society) by Mark D. Jordan ISBN: 0226410404 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech by Mark D. Jordan ISBN: 0807010545 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay by James Alison ISBN: 0824519221 Publisher: Crossroad General Interest Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Vows of Silence : The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II by Jason Berry, Gerald Renner ISBN: 0743244419 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 04 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Sex and Love in the Home: A Theology of the Household by David Matzko McCarthy ISBN: 0334028426 Publisher: Scm Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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