Moved by the Spirit: Theological Literatures of LGBT Advocacy. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ridinger, Robert B.
• Is Part Of: Journal of religious & theological information. Volume 16:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 22
• Page End: 33
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: Homosexuality -- Christianity -- gay and lesbian clergy -- Scriptural interpretation -- Protestants -- Catholicism -- liturgy; Theology -- Bibliography -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Religion -- Bibliography -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Theological libraries -- Periodicals; Libraries -- Special collections -- Theology -- Periodicals; 026.2
• DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2016.1273025
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1047-7845

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Debate over the question of how to effectively acknowledge and advocate for the presence of LGBT people as legitimate members of religious denominations and a population entitled to ministry has generated a substantial body of monographic literature within the field of theology. The earliest works were published during the era of the homophile movement in the 1960s prior to the Stonewall riot in 1969 that marks the beginning of the contemporary gay and lesbian civil rights movement. The subsequent decades have witnessed an expansion and diversification of this genre with the emergence of specific liturgies and ceremonies addressing significant LGBT life events, autobiographies and biographies of openly lesbian and gay clergy, and writings confronting issues of ethnicity and activism.