Friendly Competitors, Fierce Companions: Men's Ways of RelatingLeib focuses on how Western religious and ethical traditions find their origins in masculine impulses toward intimacy. He echoes the works of Edward Carpenter, a Victorian Anglican priest who spoke out against the repressive sexual ethic of his day and used his relationship with Walt Whitman as a resource for such terms as fierce companions and sacred homosexuality. |
Contents
A History of Love between Men | 23 |
The Culture of Greed and the Culture of Brotherhood | 84 |
The Rediscovery of Sacred Sexuality | 127 |
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Gays and Grays: The Story of the Inclusion of the Gay Community at Most Holy ... Donal Godfrey No preview available - 2008 |