New LGBTQ Christian books: Sept 2015

Religion’s role in LGBTQ history and lives are explored in new books “Reforming Sodom” and “Constance Maynard’s Passions.”

History


“Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights” by Heather Rachelle White.

Religion tends to get downplayed in LGBT history. A religion professor challenges the prevailing LGBT secular narrative and recovers the forgotten history of liberal Protestants' role on both sides of the debates on sexual orientation and identity. White teaches in the religion department and gender and queer studies program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.


Biography


“Constance Maynard’s Passions: Religion, Sexuality, and an English Educational Pioneer, 1849-1935” by Pauline A. Phillips.

A successful evangelical religious woman leader’s effort to forge “a distinct same-sex sexual self-consciousness” is covered in this biography. She saw her passionate relationships with women as God’s gift and a test her faith. The author is a history/women’s studies professor at the University of Windsor.

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