The final cause : the cause of causes / Mary Daly -- Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality / John Boswell -- The battle for chastity / Michel Foucault -- New ways in our sexual spirituality / James B. Nelson -- Trajectories in men's studies in religion : theories, methodologies, and issues / Stephen B. Boyd -- A gay man's wish list for the future of men's studies in religion / J. Michael Clark -- Homosexuality, queer theory, and Christian theology / Laurel C. Schneider -- Unheroic conduct : the rise of heterosexuality and Jewish masculinity / Daniel Boyarin -- Bodies : the displaced body of Jesus Christ / Graham Ward -- Designing men : reading the male body as text / Philip L. Culbertson -- Constructing common ground : mapping the contributions of gay people to Christian theology / Jay E. Johnson -- Transgression as a metaphor for queer theologies / Robert E. Goss -- True confessions and weird obsessions : autobiographical interventions in literary and Biblical studies / Stephen D. Moore -- Unmanning Israel / Howard Eilberg-Schwartz -- Sex and the single savior / Dale B. Martin -- Biblical interpretation as a technology of the self : gay men and the ethics of reading / Ken Stone -- Fathers and sons : fragments from an autobiographical Midrash on John's gospel / Jeffrey L. Staley -- Soldiers of Christ : Christian masculinity and militarism in late antiquity / Mathew Kuefler -- "Try to be a man" : the rabbinic construction of masculinity / Michael L. Satlow -- "Begotten, not made" : conceiving manhood in late antiquity / Virginia Burrus -- The discovery of sodomy / Mark D. Jordan -- Christian manliness unmanned : masculinity and religion in nineteenth- and twentieth-century western society / Sean Gill -- Miles to go : Promise Keepers in historical and cultural context / Charles H. Lippy -- The problematization of nocturnal emissions in the early Christian church / David Brakke -- Circumcision and the erection of patriarchy / Harry Brod -- From masturbation to homosexuality : a case study of displaced moral disapproval / Donald Capps -- Receptivity and revelation : a spirituality of gay male sex / Scott Haldeman -- The sacrality of male beauty and homosex / Ronald E. Long -- Sanctity and male desire : Sebastian and Tarcisius / Donald L. Boisvert -- Who's afraid of gay theology? : men's studies, gay scholars, and heterosexual silence / Björn Krondorfer -- Critical theory, deconstruction, and liberation / Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher -- Beyond machismo : a Cuban case study / Miguel De La Torre -- A gap in the closet : gay theology in Latin American context / André S. Musskopf -- The cross and male violence / James Newton Poling