15 April 2025
CLGS is proud to announce the publication of Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell. Edited by Bernard Schlager, Executive Director of the Center, this book contains 11 essays based upon lectures given in our annual CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture series.
From the publisher, Routledge Press:
“Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship builds upon the work and legacy of Professor John Boswell, bringing together contributions that were delivered at the annual CLGS Boswell Lecture Series at Pacific School of Religion, USA. Boswell is lauded as a major scholar in gender and sexuality studies and is recognized as an early advocate for the full inclusion of LGBTQ people in faith communities. Drawing inspiration from Boswell’s ground-breaking book Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (1980), the chapters address a variety of relevant topics in theology, scripture, queer studies, ethics, and social justice. Boswell’s legacy of scholarly excellence and his prophetic activism continue to live on in the writings of these noted academics, religious leaders, and activists. The book will be of particular interest to scholars working in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, religious studies, and the history of Christianity.”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction (Bernard Schlager)
Theology
1. “Who Is Human?: The Subversive Question at the Heart of Christianity” by Orlando O. Espín
2. “Enfleshing Eros, Healing Earth: A Queerly Christian Performance of Ecological Renewal in Three Acts” by Jay Emerson Johnson
3. “Queer Bodies: Colliding, Expanding, Flourishing” by Rolf Nolasco
Gender and Race
4. “Reading the Bible with the Eunuchs” by Sean D. Burke
5. “The Rainbow Connection: Bridging Asian American and Queer Theologies” by Patrick S. Cheng
6. “How Does a Queer Feminist Remain a Christian?” by Lisa Isherwood
Ethics and Social Transformation
7. “What’s Queer about Christian Couples? Engaging Augustine’s Theology of Marriage” by Virginia Burrus
8. “‘Peace Be Still’: James Cleveland and the Paradox of Peace in the Civil Rights Movement” by Johari Jabir
9. “A Gay, Male, Christian, Sexual Ethic” by Dale B. Martin
10. “Queer Theology and Social Transformation: Points of Contact, Points of Conflict” by Jay Michaelson
11. “Why Do Biblical Interpreters Hate Sex So Much?” by Luis Menéndez-Antuña