Upcoming Events

Souls 'a Fire!

April 10 to April 12, 2001

National Conference of the African American Roundtable Project

In April of 2003, the African American Roundtable Project of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry ...

Inaugural Conference: Celebrating Our Past, Envisioning Our Future

April 19 to April 21, 2001

This weekend conference provided a forum for the diverse areas and concerns that are at the heart of the Center's work. From identity politics to queer theory, from denominational resolutions to lay education, from racial and ethnic distinctiveness to fluid sexualities, and from Christian debates to Buddhist reflections—this immense range of religious institutions and practices and of theological theories and convictions in dynamic conjunction with the diversity of sexual orientations and gender identities provided the complex terrain the Center is created to traverse.

Rereading Terminology for Male Homoerotic Relations in Hebrew Scripture

February 26, 2004

By Dr. Saul Olyan

Dorot Professor of Judaic Studies, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the program in Judaic Studies at Brown University

Let Us Make Our Father Drink Wine and Lie With Him' : Queer Reading and the Daughters of Lot

April 29, 2004

By Dr. Ken Stone

Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Chicago Theological Seminary

Many "queer readings" of the Bible try to counter religious homophobia by arguing against traditional ...

Gender and the Religion Gap: Queering Gender and Religious Affiliation

October 7, 2004

By Melissa Wilcox

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The Queer Politics of Pleasure: Beyond Shame into New Theological Erogenous Zones

December 2, 2004

By Robert E. Goss

Drawing on his experience with the intersections of sexuality and spirituality and academic scholarship, Dr. Goss will speak on some of the more provocative and ...

Marriage In San Francisco: One Year Later

February 10, 2005

By: Karen Oliveto, Jay Johnson, Mary Tolbert, Charlene Tschirhart, and others

Leather Sex and Spirituality

March 17, 2005

By Joseph Bean

Making the connections between eroticism and spirituality has become increasingly common in recent years, but less so with reference to sadomasochistic practices and ...

Man, Women, Both, Neither: Buddhist Discourses on Normative and Queer Gensexuality

April 7, 2005

By Jose Cabezon

Dr. Cabezon received his doctorate in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is currently Professor or Religious Studies at the University of ...