Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
qTruly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition.qaMichel Foucault John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay membersaamong them priests, bishops, and even saintsawhen it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
| Title | : | Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality |
| Author | : | John Boswell |
| Publisher | : | University of Chicago Press - 2009-02-15 |
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