RELIGION:
GENERAL / OUVRAGES
GÉNÉRAUX (often Christian-related)
Appleby, Brenda.
“Debating
Same-sex Marriage in
Council
of Churches.”
Averill, Harold.
“The Church, Gays and Archives.” Archivaria 30 (Summer 1990): 85-90.
Babineau, Guy.
“Scapegoats, Black Sheep, Lambs of God:
Challenge
a Flock Mentality.” Xtra! West
113 (1997): 28-29.
Author
‘examines the philosophies of
Christian
groups. He questions why…there is
silence when the
community
comes under attack by the religious right.
Several
clergymen
and members…discuss their philosophies toward
religion
and spirituality” –NISC Gay & Lesbian Abstracts.
Baillargeon,
Gaëtan.
“À propos d’homosexualité et d’un
magistère incertain.” Présence
1(7)
(déc.
1992): 4-5.
“Attitude
de l’Eglise unie du Canada face au mariage d’homosexuels;
attitude
de l’Eglise catholique” – Repère résumé.
Baillargeon
est professeur au Departement de théologie à
l’Université
du Québec à Trois-Rivières.
Bédard,
Brigitte.
“Une spiritualité gaie pour l’an
2000.” Présence magazine 6(47)
(déc. 1997):
26-28.
“Compte
rendu d’une rencontre tenue à Montréal en octobre 1997 sur
la
spiritualité des gais et des lesbiennes” –Repère résumé.
Bellemare, Daniel.
“AIDS: The Challenge to Pastoral Care.” Journal of Palliative Care [
4(4)
(Dec. 1988): 58-60.
Bergman, Brian.
“Sex, Gays and Religion: Clerics Challenge the
Bounds of Permissible Sex.”
Maclean’s, February 17, 1992, pp. 16-17.
“Clerics
in
sex. James Ferry, a minister of the Anglican
Church of Canada, was
released
from the church for having a sexual relationship with a man.
Ferry
filed a civil suit against the church.”
Article mentions also
difficulties
for Stan Richards, a Winnipeg Lutheran minister, and for
Roman
Catholic theologian, André Guindon, whose views the
did
not like. United
summary
in Expanded Academic ASAP index.
Bisaillon,
Réjean.
“La problematisation de
l’homosexualité en théologie morale: vers une
éthique
gaie et chrétienne.” Ph.D. dissertation,
Université de Montréal,
1999.
(305
p.)
Boisvert, Donald L.
Out
on Holy Ground: Meditations on Gay Men’s Spirituality.
Pilgrim Press, 2000.
(148 p.; ISBN 0829813691)
Included because subject of general nature and author at Concordia
University,
Boldt, Victor.
“Gay People Deserve Equal Rights: The Struggle of Gay Liberation against
Religious
Character Assassination.” Humanist in
(Winter 2000/2001): 9-11.
Bowers, Joseph R.
“Erospirituality: Sex, Ecology, Evolution – The
Ontopoetics of Soul.”
M.Ed.
thesis,
(486
p.)
“Sexuality
and spirituality are explored from the perspectives of a
gay
man” – abstract from Canadian Research Index/UMI.
Camargo, Robert J.,
and Loftus, John Allan.
“Child Sexual Abuse among Troubled Clergy: A
Descriptive Summary.”
Paper
presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological
Association,
100th,
(33
p.)
“Study
participants were males who had sought treatment at
Southdown,
a Canadian institution….” Investigation
included
homosexual
activity, but was broader. –NISC Gay & Lesbian Abstracts.
Available
in paper or on microfiche from EDRS,
Chamberland,
Line.
“De la répression à la tolérance:
l’homosexualité.” Cap-aux Diamants
[Québec]
49
(printemps 1997): 36-39.
“Evolution
des discours religieux et juridique au Canada et au
Québec
depuis le 17e siècle” – Repère résumé.
Chénard,
Gabriel.
“Homosexualité.” RND: revue Notre-Dame 1 (janv. 1986):
1-28.
Des
discours psychologiques, sociales, morales et éthiques, et
religieuses sur l’homosexualité.
“
July 20, 1985, p. 19.
“Church Historian
Defines Guidelines on Sexuality.” Globe
and Mail, February 5,
1992, p. A5.
Comstock, Gary David, 1945-
Exodus
and Resurrection: The Ministry of Lesbians and Gay Men within the
Churches.
(13 p.; ISBN 0920764150)
Comstock, Gary David, 1945-
Unrepentant, Self-Affirming, Practicing:
Lesbian/Bisexual/Gay People within
Organized Religion.
(329 p.; ISBN 0826408818)
Lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals in
the religious life in the
catalogue.
Culbertson, Debbie.
“Keeping the Faith in
Generally
Shut.” AlbertaViews [
Davidson, Judy.
“Homophobia, Fundamentalism, and Canadian Tolerance: Enabling Gay Games
III
in
151-175
“Dismissal of
Homosexual Teachers for Denominational Cause.”
EduLaw for Canadian Schools 7(8) (April 1996): 59-61.
Dykeman, Kathryn Lynn, 1960-
“The Welcoming Congregation Movement and the Experiences of Lesbian
Women
in the Christian Church.” M.Th. thesis,
2002.
(165 leaves)
Refs.:
also AMICUS catalogue record no. 28298269, which notes, from thesis
abstract, that the “research project examines the church experiences of
seventeen lesbian women who were participants in at least one of the
following groups: Christian Lesbians Out (CLOUT), the Brethren and
Mennonite Council for Gay and Lesbian Concerns (BMC), and Olive
Eby, Margaret Arlene.
“‘Queerscapes’: Lesbian Women’s Experience of Bias in Supervised Pastoral
Education (SPE) in the Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and
Education
(CAPPE).” M.Th. thesis,
(125 p.)
Faris, Donald L.
The Homosexual Challenge: A Christian Response
to an Age of Sexual
Politics. Markham, Ont.: Faith Today Publications,
c1993.
(154
p.; ISBN 0969559623)
Revision
of: Trojan Horse, listed below.
Faris, Donald L.
Trojan Horse: The Homosexual Ideology and the
Christian Church.
(80 p.; ISBN 1550111132)
Revised
as: The Homosexual Challenge. 1993, listed above.
Review:
United Church Observer 53(11) (May 1990): 40-41
and
Presbyterian Record 116(11) (Dec. 1992): 34, 36.
Farker, Harry, 1950-
A Christian and Biblical Perspective on Homosexuality.
(32 p.; ISBN 0973177047)
Geest, Fred Van.
“Research Note: Christian Denominational Political Action on the Subject of
Homosexuality.” Review of Religious Research 48(4) (June 2007): 401-419.
Ref.: CSA Sociological Abstracts, which notes that the paper
“…summarizes the public policy positions taken on the subject of
homosexuality for the twenty-five largest denominations in North
National Association of Evangelicals, the National Council of Christian
Churches,
the Evangelical Fellowship of
Council of Churches.” Also deals with “strategies and tactics used.”
Gilders, William Keith.
“Romans 1: 26-27 and Homosexuality: A Study in Text and Context.”
M.A. thesis,
(ca.
141 leaves)
Hawkes, Brent, and
Rainbow Devotions at Christmastime: Advent for Lesbians and Gay Men.
([32] p.; ISBN 0968159206)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 16179609.
Hawkes, Brent, and Rooney, Frances.
Rainbow
Devotions on the Book of Galatians: For Freedom Christ Has Set
Us Free. Toronto: Wild Acres Productions, c1998.
(42 p.; ISBN 0968159214)
Series note: Rainbow devotions series; #2
Hellquist, Gens.
“God’s Not on Their Side.” Briarpatch 32(5) (June 2003): 31+
(2 pages; 1264 words)
Ref.: CPI.Q index, which notes that this concerns homophobia and
fundamentalism.
Herman, D.
“The Christian Right and the Politics of
Morality in Canada.”
Parliamentary
Affairs 47(2) (Apr. 1994): 268-279.
“Canadian
Christian Right has played a prominent role in struggles
against
both abortion and gay rights” – NISC Gay & Lesbian Abstracts,
from
POPLINE database of U.S. National Library of Medicine.
“Homosexuals Protest
Ex-Gay Christians: Convention to Be Held in Toronto.”
Globe and Mail, June 22, 1991, pp. A1, A2.
Exodus
International.
Huckle, Vincent E.
“Being Gay and Pagan in the 1990s.” Hecate’s Loom: A Canadian Pagan
Quarterly
24 (1994): 31-33.
Hunsberger, Bruce.
“Religious Fundamentalism, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Hostility toward
Homosexuals in Non-Christian Religious Groups.” International Journal
for the Psychology of Religion 6(1) (1996): 39-49.
Small, self-selected samples of adults of Muslim, Hindu, and
Jewish background – abstract from PsycINFO.
Hunsberger, Bruce; Owusu, Vida; and Duck, Robert.
“Religion and Prejudice in Ghana and Canada: Religious Fundamentalism,
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Attitudes toward Homosexuals and
Women.” International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 9(3)
(1999):
181-194.
Jackson, Lynne Marie.
“Does Religion Teach Empathy and Helpfulness?:
The Role of Fundamentalism
and
Target of Need in the Religion-Helping Relation.” MA thesis,
Wilfrid
Laurier University, 1993.
(108 p.)
Tested
133 introductory psychology students with a letter “ostensibly
written
by a person hoping to attend university….The student was
represented
as being either a young heterosexual adult or a young
homosexual
adult” – abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Jackson, Lynne M., and Esses, Victoria.
“Of Scripture and Ascription: The Relation between Religious Fundamentalism
and Intergroup Helping.” Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin 23(8)
(Aug. 1997): 893-906.
Broader than scope of this bibliography. Various social groups,
including homosexuals.
Jourdenais, Manon, 1951-
Maintenant que je ne vais plus
mourir: l’expérience spirituelle des homosexuels
vivant
avec le VIH/sida: un guide pour l’accompagnement. Avec la
collaboration de Jean-Guy
Nadeau. St.-Laurent, Québec: Fides,
1998.
(283 p.; ISBN 2762120349)
Kelm, Christian.
“The ‘Homophobic’ Stamp of Scripture: The Language of Purity, Contagion
and Crossing Boundaries: The Audience’s Reception of Leviticus 18:22
and 20:13.” Thesis manuscript. Men’s Studies Conference (1994:
Providence, Rhode Island), 1994.
(ca. 27 leaves)
One of OCLC catalog record descriptors (accession no. 39305867) is
“Homophobia – Canada.”
Kirchhoff, Inge, 1942-
“Clergy Attitudes toward Homosexuality.” MSc thesis, University of Manitoba,
1988.
(ca. 127
p.)
Koornstra, Andy.
Homosexuality: Getting Free, Staying Free. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny
Image Publishers, 1991.
(135 p.; ISBN 1560430397)
Ref.: OCLC catalog record (accession no. 26095101) provides
descriptors “Homosexuality, Male – Religious aspects –
Christianity” and “Gay men – Canada – Biography”
“Religion, Sexual Orientation and the State: Can Public Officials Refuse to
Perform Same-sex Marriage?” Canadian Bar Review 85(2) (Jan. 2007): 287-316.
Lake, Catherine, ed.
ReCREATIONS: Religion and Spirituality in the Lives of Queer People.
Edited and with an introduction by Catherine Lake. Toronto: Queer Press, 1999.
(189 p.; ISBN 1895564069)
Canadian and American content.
Lapointe,
Guy, et Bisaillon, Réjean, eds.
Nouveau regard sur l’homosexualité:
questions d’éthique: actes d’un
colloque. Tenu sous l’égide de la Faculté de théologie
de l’Université de
Montréal, novembre 1996. [St.-Laurent, Québec]: Fides, 1997.
(261 p.; ISBN 2762119758)
Review:
Richard P. Hardy, Studies in Religion 27(1) (1998): 94-95.
Lesk, Andrew.
“It’s All in the Family: In Ontario, a
Rightwing Pressure Group Lends Its
Marketing Techniques to Fundamentalist Churches
Opposed to Gay Rights.”
The Body Politic 133 (Dec. 1986): 11-12.
Lowes, Carol.
“Hate Speech Quandary: Christians Divided over Amendment That Seeks
to
Protect Gays.” Christianity Today
[
Ref.: CPI.Q index.
Concerns passage of Bill C-250 by Parliament (Criminal Code
amendment concerning hate). See Law – Year 2004 section for reference
at Criminal Code (hate propaganda) entry.
Mabey, Susan Louise.
“When the Valley of the Shadow is Littered with
Bones: Ministry in the
Midst of Multiple Bereavements.” Ph.D. dissertation, Emmanuel College
of Victoria University, University of Toronto,
1999.
(208 p.)
Broader
than scope of this bibliography, but “the theory base of this
study
includes…an examination of the complications of grief
experienced
by the gay and lesbian community” – abstract from
ProQuest Digital Dissertations.
MacDougall,
Bruce.
“The Separation of Church and Date: Destabilizing Traditional Religion-based
Legal
Norms on Sexuality.”
(Winter 2003): 1-27.
Ref.: CPI.Q index.
MacDougall, Bruce.
“Silence in the Classroom: Limits on Homosexual
Expression and Visibility
in Education and the Privileging of Homophobic
Religious Ideology.”
Saskatchewan Law Review 61(1) (1998):
41-86.
MacEachern, Douglas I.
On Sexual Orientation: “A Christian Reflection—.”
Moncton, N.B.: D.I. MacEachern, 1999.
(ca 52 p.; ISBN 0968521908)
“Meet the God Squad.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.], February
19, 2000, p. A22.
Persons
as subjects: Tom Wappel, Murray Calder, Pat O’Brien.
Government
and religion; gay rights.
Millard, Peter.
“The Fundamentalist Crusade [against
gays].” Briarpatch [Saskatchewan]
18(8) (Oct. 1989): 10-13.
Miller, Wesley.
“The Use and Abuse of the Bible in the Contemporary Debate about
Homosexuality.” Master of Theology thesis, Regent College, 1989.
(ca. 212 p.)
Mills, Bruce L.
“The Construction of Homosexuality in Christian
Tradition and Its Influence
on the Meaning of AIDS: A Psychological
Study.” Ph.D. dissertation,
University of Ottawa, 1991.
(240 p.)
Addresses
the two questions: what is the meaning of AIDS and where
does
this meaning come from? Author says that
homophobia has
its
sources in our society in the Sodom story (Genesis XIX) and
Paul’s
New Testament discourse on human sexaulity.
“By taking
both
conscious and unconscious aspects of homophobia into
consideration,
the meaning of AIDS and some of the sources of this
meaning
can be put forward” – abstract from Canadian Research Index.
Mills, Jonathan.
Love, Covenant and Meaning: Why Liberals and
Conservatives Are
Conspiring to Prevent Homosexual Men from
Marrying.
Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 1997.
(131 p.; ISBN 0888654200; also 1573830917)
Author
is an instructor at Vancouver’s Regent College, a Christian
evangelically-oriented
school.
See
Bob Bettson, “Gay-Straight Marriages Proposed,” Anglican Journal
May
1998, pp. 1, 3 for discussion of book and opposition to it from
liberals
and conservatives.
Millward, Ted.
What the Bible Says to Homosexuals. 3rd
ed., rev.; Winnipeg, Man.: Council on
Homosexuality & Religion, 1986.
(24 p.; ISBN 0920764096)
“This
pioneering exegetical work…takes a brave stand against right-wing
religious
reaction to the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1970s” –
excerpt
from lengthy note on 2nd ed., rev. (1981) in University of Western
Ontario
library catalogue.
“Mortified in
Reaction to gay marriage issue; specific mention of Anglican Church of
Canada’s Diocese of New Westminster having voted on June 15 to
“provide church blessings for homosexual couples.”
Ref.: Expanded Academic ASAP index
Myers, Margaret Elizabeth.
“Quest
for Balm in
Members with Relatives Who Have ‘Come Out’ As Lesbian or Gay.”
M.Th.
thesis,
“…a study between September 2005 and March 2006 that explored the
disclosure experiences of church affiliated relatives of lesbians and gays in
their mainline church communities….”
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33666433.
Note similar title as Myers entry in collection listed under
RELIGION
–
Nouveau regard sur
l’homosexualité.
SEE
entry at Lapointe, Guy, in this section.
O’Brien, Jodi.
“How Big Is Your God? : Queer Christian Social Movements.”
In
Genealogies of Identity: Interdisciplinary
pp. 237-261. Edited by Margaret Sönser Breen and Fiona Peters.
Ref.:
MLA International Bibliography, which notes the
systems, religion, and Christianity, with relationship to homosexuality.
Ogilvie, M. H.
“Gender Discrimination Forbidden: From the Glens of Angus to a Church near
You.” Canadian Bar Review 86(2) (Dec. 2007): pagination not known.
Article broader in scope than that of this bibliography.
CBCA index notes that this is a literature review. Concerns clergy
and their employment status in law. “Sexual orientation” is only one
of six descriptors applied by the indexing service.
O’Leary, Denyse, ed.
A Crisis of Understanding: Homosexuality and
the Canadian Church.
Burlington, Ont.: Welch Pub., c1988.
(147 p.; ISBN 1550110918)
“Organizing God’s Army
against Equal Rites: James Dobson, an Evangelist Preacher
Credited by Many as a Main Force in the
Re-election of U.S. President George W.
Bush, Is Turning His Ministry’s Sights on
Canada….” Globe and Mail
[Toronto ed.], January 29, 2005, p. A9.
Dobson’s
Focus on the Family group wants to fight Canadian gay-marriage
legislation.
Paterson, Hillary M.G.
“The Justifiability of Biblically Based Discrimination: Can Private Christian
Schools Legally Refuse to Employ Gay Teachers?” University of Toronto
Faculty of Law Review 59(1)(Winter 2001): 59-105.
Pelletier,
Pierre.
L’amour au masculin et expérience
spirituelle.
Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby, Québec:
Editions de la Paix; Montréal:
Distribué par Edipresse, 1995.
(271 p.; ISBN 2921255316)
“C’est
le premier essai à explorer la vie intérieure des gays, tant
du
point de vue psychologique que spirituel, voire religieux et
mystique” – Editions de la Paix website, as of
January 8, 2001.
Review:
Relations 626 (Dec. 1996): 316.
Poole, Carman.
“Some Suggestions for Pastoral Outreach to Gay Parishioners.”
Dr. Min. thesis, Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Bexley Hall/
Crozer Theological Seminary, 1989.
(121 leaves)
Included because AMICUS catalogue record no. 19259135
gives
“Toronto, Ont.” as place of publication.
“Religions Unite over Sex and the Family: Coalition Opposes Redefinition.”
Calgary Herald, February 20, 2001, pp. A1, A2.
Ref.: CBCA electronic index.
Interfaith Coalition on Marriage and Family. Article concerns
“marriage law” and “homosexuality and religion.”
Robillard, Marcel, 1953-
Mirage-secours: manuel de
travail: un programme complet de 20 étapes qui
fait connaître l’amour de Dieu,
les causes de la confusion sexuelle et la
guérison de l’identité sexuelle:
pour ceux qui souffrent dans leur
identité sexuelle. Montréal: Editions Parole de vie, 1997.
(91 p.; ISBN 2892820650)
Robinson,
Margaret Anne.
“Non-Heterosexual Liberation Theology.” Honours thesis, Saint Mary’s
University (Halifax, N.S.), 1997.
(81 leaves)
“A Sacred Gift from
God: It Is a Fact, Surprising to Few and Denied by Many, That
Homosexuality and the Love of God Go
Together.” Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],
June 11, 1994, p. D5.
Christianity
and gays.
Samson, André.
“L’apport de la spiritualité dans le
processus d’adaptation psychosociale chez
les homosexuels infectés au
VIH.” Pastoral Sciences = Sciences
pastorales
19(1) (Spring 2000): 33-50.
Shoemaker, Erin, and
Somerville, James.
“Should Churches Ordain Gay Clergy?” Chatelaine, April 1989, pp. 65-66.
Smith, Christopher R.
The Boundaries of Creation: Homosexuality and the Bible : A Response to
Revisionist
Interpretations.
(ISBN 1894667468 and 9781894667463)
Ref.: AMICUS prepublication catalogue record no. 33115437 (as of
concerning homosexuality with respect to Christianity and Biblical teaching.
Spong, John Shelby.
“The
Christ Who Breaks the Boundaries of Prejudice.”
(1 sound disc)
Ref.:
Centre (online) bibliography, “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual…,” which
bibliography is fully cited elsewhere in this list, in the Bibliographies
section.
The bibliography notes that the Spong item is a public lecture delivered
at
the annual University of Saskatchewan College of Education’s “Breaking
the Silence: Gays and Lesbians in Our Schools” conference.
Stang, Vivian.
Open
Hearts, Open Arms: A Resource Guide for Pastoral Care to Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Persons and Their Loved Ones.
Toronto: ABC Pub., c2007.
(59
p.; ISBN 9781551264943)
Refs.: N. Richards communication; AMICUS catalogue record
no. 33270683.
Stefansson, Lilja B.
“The Bible Says.” Canadian Woman Studies 14(1) (1993):
24 (881 words).
Homosexuality;
toleration.
Veenvliet, Scott G.
“‘Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin’: Reality or Fiction?” M.A. thesis,
(97 p.)
Walton, Gerald.
“Questionable Identities: A Study of Gay and
Evangelical Christian Identity
Conflict and Resolution.” MA thesis,
(166 p.)
Young, Pamela Dickey.
“Same-sex
Marriage and the
Studies in Religion 35(1) (2006): 3-23.
Young, Pamela D.
“Same-Sex Relationships, Religious Traditions, Marriage and the Law.”
Studies in Religion = Sciences religieuses 29(4) (2000): 465-480.
Young, Pamela Dickey, 1955- , ed.
Theological Reflections on Ministry and Sexual Orientation.
(146 p.; ISBN 1550111434)