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Rutgers University Press NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, AND LONDON
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Copyright 1998 by David Shallenberger
All rights reserved
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Shallenberger, David, 1950 Reclaiming the spirit : gay men and lesbians come to terms with religion / David Shallenberger. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8135-2488-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. GaysReligious life. 2. GaysInterviews. 3. Homosexuality Religious aspects. I. Title. BL65.H64S53 1998 200.8664DC21 97-24856 CIP
British Cataloging-in-Publication data for this book is available from the British Library
Manufactured in the United States of America
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This book is dedicated to those who are struggling to find their place at the table.
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CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
1
Part One Deep Questioning
Rafael: Loving and Living in the Questions
20
Dan: "HIV Doubled My Spirituality"
38
Denise: Moving Beyond the "Fashion Show"
55
Part Two Finding Community
Sandra: A Roller-Coaster Ride
81
Mary: In Some Intangible, Strange Relationship to the Church Universal
95
Part Three Choosing to Leave the Mainstream
Harry: Recovering and Looking for a Coven
120
Mark: A Gay Spiritual Ancestry
137
Rachel: Culturally Jewish, Naturally Taoist
162
Sheila: ALL THAT IS
178
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Part Four Developing a Ministry
Gerald: Fundamental, but Gay Affirming
208
Ann: MCC or American Baptist?
230
Vincent: Being Rocked by God
246
Conclusion
265
Appendix: Methodology
275
Bibliography
279
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The work leading up to this book took more than four years to complete from the original design of the study. Dozens of interviews led to many hundreds of pages of transcripts, which turned into a handful of articles and the book you are reading. Many, many people were involved, directly and close by or indirectly and at a distance.
Most central, of course, are the contributors whose stories you are about to read, as well as the more than sixty others who do not show up as explicitly in these pages. In early 1992 seventy-five gay men and lesbian women filled out a survey that asked about the highlights of their spiritual journeys; of that number, twenty-six met with meoften over two or three two-hour sessionsand graciously shared their stories in rich detail. Twelve of those are found in this book, but all of the twenty-six are reflected herein in one way or another. The twelve I chose to include here share many of the same questions, concerns, struggles, and joys as did those that I did not incorporate into the book. I am profoundly grateful to all who participated.
Before any of this work ever started, I was, of course, on my own spiritual journey. That path took a significant turn as I came to know and love my life partner, Harvey. He supported me deeply at a time when my world was crumbling under the combined weight of the loss, through AIDS, of virtually every close friend I had. My struggles continued after we met when, with a period of a few months, my father and two intimate
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