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Overview

In Wrestling with the Angel, twenty-one authors - gay men who are Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, and Mormon - explore in moving and powerful essays the paradox at the center of their faiths: If God creates each of us in His own image, then how can that image be "wrong"? In vivid descriptions of their paths toward spiritual and sexual identity, such eloquent contributors as David Plante, Mark Doty, Lev Raphael, Alfred Corn, Andrew Holleran, Frank Browning, Michael Nava, Brad Gooch, Fenton Johnson, and Felice Picano reveal the joys and frustrations of communicating with one's excommunicator or, in some cases, of constructing a faith of one's own. Heightened by the urgency of this brutal age of AIDS,
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Overview

In Wrestling with the Angel, twenty-one authors - gay men who are Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, and Mormon - explore in moving and powerful essays the paradox at the center of their faiths: If God creates each of us in His own image, then how can that image be "wrong"? In vivid descriptions of their paths toward spiritual and sexual identity, such eloquent contributors as David Plante, Mark Doty, Lev Raphael, Alfred Corn, Andrew Holleran, Frank Browning, Michael Nava, Brad Gooch, Fenton Johnson, and Felice Picano reveal the joys and frustrations of communicating with one's excommunicator or, in some cases, of constructing a faith of one's own. Heightened by the urgency of this brutal age of AIDS, their essays are both intensely personal and partisan. They rise off the page like rambunctious prayers, reflecting not only the spiritual hunger brought on by the new millennium, but also the fact that we can no more choose our God than we can our sexuality.

In vivid descriptions of their paths toward spiritual and sexual identity, such eloquent contributors as Lev Raphael, Alfred Corn, Andrew Holleran, David Plante, and Felice Picano reveal the joys and frustrations of communicating with one's excommunicator, or in some cases, of constructing a faith of one's own.

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Sadly and somewhat ironically, 25 years after the gay-empowering Stonewall Rebellion, the term ``gay lifestyle'' still connotes narcissism and superficiality in the popular mind. Of course, the diverse reality of the inner and outer lives of gay men defies such reductionism. And this collection of 21 autobiographical essays by gifted gay writers of varied social and racial backgrounds movingly documents the variety of gay spirituality. In total, the essays amply validate the introductory claims by Bouldrey (The Genius of Desire) that ``now more than ever, the issues religion takes up are those most important to gay men'' in ``learning to embrace the whole of their lives.'' How the devastating ravages of AIDS have nurtured this quest for wholeness is eloquently distilled by Mark Doty, Felice Picano and Philip Gambone, while Michael Nava and Frank Browning intriguingly compare t the liberating gay experience of coming out to the Christian experience of being ``born again.'' Others, including Andrew Holleran, David Plante, Lev Raphael, Brad Gooch and Michael Lowenthal, trace the lingering resonances of Roman Catholic childhoods, search for personal meaning in Jewish heritages or define the intersections of physical desire and spiritual longing. Although the essays lack uniform emotional intensity, there is surprisingly no bitterness (not even from an unfrocked Mormon bishop), but there is much thirst for reconciliation in this stellar gathering of revelations about the divine agape that unites all men of good will regardless of their sexual orientation. BOMC and QPB main selections. (May)
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This essay collection, compiled by Bouldrey (The Genius of Desire, Ballantine, 1993), examines the struggles of faith of 21 gay male writers, including Andrew Holleran, Lev Raphael, and Michael Nava. Spiritual hunger, the need for guidance, and thoughts of death bring each author to contemplate the mystery of spirituality and the tempestuous relationship between spirituality and sexuality. Some of the men are able to overcome the malleable pubescent stage of life and resolve the raging tempest. Thus, D.G. Miller writes in his essay of stuffing his face with "Wonderbread, the bread of eternal life" to avoid the perils of hell, while Fenton Johnson writes as a Southern boy raised with manners and having no interest in crashing a party to which he has been "so expressly disinvited." These essays are passionate reminders of those who reach out for richer spiritual life. As Alfred Corn writes, "I know that I am myself because God wanted me to be whom I am, and that God rejoices with me in my life as a gay man." For popular collections.-L. Kriz, Sioux City P.L., Ia.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781573220033
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/9/1995
  • Pages: 314
  • Product dimensions: 9.56 (w) x 5.78 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Sweet Chariot 1
2 My Father's House 11
3 To Be a Jew 21
4 Naming the Addiction 49
5 Saved 59
6 The Sense of Sin 83
7 The Way of Some Flesh 97
8 Chain of Fools 117
9 Trying Grace 131
10 The Way the Stars Come Home 147
11 Images of the Body From My Religion 171
12 Coming Out and Born Again 175
13 Bamidbar 183
14 A Christian Is Someone Who's Met One 195
15 What is the Sexual Orientation of a Christian? 203
16 Searching for Real Words 221
17 God, Gays, and the Geography of Desire 243
18 Saying Kaddish for Peter 259
19 AIDS: The New Crucible of Faith 265
20 Personal Dichotomies 283
21 The Exorcism of Mother and Son 301
Contributors 311
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