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Ackermann, Denise, and Bobs-Storm, R, Liberating Faith Practices: feminist practical theologies in context, Peeters, 1998.

Alexander, Marian and Preston, J, We were baptised too: claiming God's grace for lesbians and gays, John Knox Press, 1996.

Anderson, Pamela Sue, A Feminist Philosophy of Religion, Blackwell, 1998.

Armour, Ellen,Deconstruction, Feminist Theology and the Problem of Difference: subverting the race/gender divide, University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Bach, Alice, Seduction and Betrayal in Biblical Narrative, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Baest, Marieke van, Poetry of Hadewijch, Peeters, 1998.

Bagemihl, Bruce, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, Profile Books, 1999.

Beattie, Tina, God's Mother, Eve's Advocate: a gynocentric refiguration of Marian symbolism in engagement with Luce Irigaray, CCSRG Monograph Series 3, Dept of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, 1999.

Beattie, Tina, Rediscovering Mary: insights from the Gospels, Burns & Oates, 1995.

Beattie, Tina, Eve's Pilgrimage: a Woman's Quest for the City of God. (London: Burns & Oates/Continuum)

Bell, Geneva, My Rose: an American mother's story of AIDS, Pilgrim Press, 1997.

Bennett Moore, Zoe, Introducing Feminist Perspectives on Pastoral Theology (London: Sheffield Academic Press 2002)

Blackmore, Josiah, and Hutcheson, G (eds), Queer Iberia: sexualities, cultures and crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Duke University Press, 1999.

Bons-Strom, Riet, The Incredible Woman: listening to women's silences in pastoral care and counselling, Abingdon Press 1996.

Boss, Sarah Jane, Empress and Handmaid: on nature and gender in the cult of the Virgin Mary, Cassell, 2000.

Bouhdiba, Abdelwahab, Sexuality in Islam, Saqi Books, 1998.

Boyd, Malcolm, Running with Jesus, Fortress Press Minneapolis, 2000.

Boyd, Stephen, Longwood, M and Muesse, M (eds), Redeeming Men: religion and masculinities, John Knox Press, 1996.

Bradshaw, Timothy (ed), The Way Forward? Christian voices on homosexuality, Hodder & Stoughton, 1997.

Brawley, Robert (ed), Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: listening to Scripture, John Knox Press, 1996.

Brooten, Bernadette, Love between Women: early Christian responses to female homoeroticism, University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Burrue, Virginia, Begotten not made: conceiving manhood in late antiquity, Stanford University Press, 2000.

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Cahill, Lisa, Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Carey, John (ed), The Sexuality Debate in North American Churches 1988-1995, Edwin Mellen, 1995.

Carr, Ann and Van Leeuwen, M (eds), Religion, Feminism and the Family, John Knox Press, 1996.

Carrette, Jeremy (ed), Religion and Culture by Michel Foucault, Manchester University Press, 1999.

Carrette, Jeremy, Foucault and Religion: spiritual corporality and practical spirituality, Routledge, 2000.

Catholic Aids Link, Positive Reflections: some pastoral and theological resources, Catholic Aids Link, 1995.

Chaves, Mark, Ordaining Women: culture and conflict in religious organisations, Harvard University Press, 1997.

Clark, Michael, Defying the Darkness: gay theology in the shadows, Pilgrim Press, 1997.

Clatworthy, Jonathan, and Taylor, David (eds), The Windsor Report: A Liberal Response, O Books, 2005.

Cleaver, Richard, Know my Name: a gay liberation theology, John Knox Press, 1995.

Coakley, Sarah (ed), Religion and the Body, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Comstock, Gary, Unrepentant, Self-affirming, Practising: lesbian/bisexual/gay people within organised religion, Continuum, 1996.

Comstock, Gary, and Henking, S (eds), Que(e)erying Religion: a critical anthology, Continuum, 1999.

Corvino, John (ed), Same Sex: debating the ethics, science and culture of homosexuality, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.

Cotter, Jim, Pleasure, Pain and Passion: some perspectives on sexuality and spirituality, Cairns, 1993.

Courtenay, Michael, Sex and Religion, Morrow & Co, 2000.

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Davies, Jon, and Loughlin, G (eds), Sex These Days: essays on theology, sexuality and society, Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

DeCrescenzo, Teresa (ed), Gay and Lesbian Professionals in the Closet: who's in, who's out, and why, Harrington Park Press, 1997.

Doniger, Wendy, Splitting the Difference: gender and myth in ancient Greece and India, University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Dormor, Duncan, Just Cohabiting? The Church, Sex and Getting Married, Darton, Longman and Todd, 2004

Douglas, Kelly, Sexuality and the Black Church, Orbis, 1999.

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Ellison, Marvin, Erotic Justice: a liberating ethic of sexuality, John Knox press, 1996.

Emmons, Terence, Alleged Sex and Threatened Violence: Doctor Russel, Bishop Vladimir and the Russians in San Francisco 1887-1892, Stanford University Press, 1997.

Empereur, James, Spiritual Direction and the Gay Person, Geoffrey Chapman, 1998.

Esser, Annette, Overzee, A H and Roll, S (eds), Re-Visioning our Sources: women's spirituality in European perspectives, Kok 1997.

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Filochowski, Julian, and Stanford, Peter (eds), Opening Up: Speaking Out in the Church, Darton Longman and Todd, 2005.

Fonrobert, Charlotte, Menstrual Purity: rabbinic and Christian reconstructions of Biblical gender, Stanford University Press, 2000.

Fortune, Marie, Love does no harm: sexual ethics for the rest of us, Continuum, 1998.

France, R T, A Slippery Slope? The Ordination of Women and Homosexual Practice – A Case Study in Biblical Interpretation, Grove Books 2000

Frascati-Lochhead, Marta, Kenosis and Feminist Theology: the challenge of Gianni Vattimo, State University of New York Press, 1998.

Fuchs, Esther, Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: reading the Hebrew Bible as a woman, Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

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Galloway, Kathy, Talking to the Bones: poems, prayers and meditations, SPCK, 1996.

Galloway, Kathy (ed), Dreaming of Eden: reflections on Christianity and sexuality, Wild Goose Publications, 1997.

George, Ivy, and Masson, M, An Uncommon Correspondence: an east-west conversation on friendship, intimacy and love, Paulist Press, 1998.

Glaser, Chris, Uncommon Calling: a gay Christian's struggle to serve the Church, John Knox Press, 1996.

Goldberg, Ann, Sex, Religion and the Making of Modern Madness: the Eberbach Asylum and German society, 1815-1849, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Goss, Robert, and Strongheart, A (eds), Our Familities, our Values: snapshots of queer kinship, Harrington Park Press, 1997.

Graff, Ann O'Hara (ed), In the Embrace of God: feminist approaches to Christian anthropology, Orbis Books, 1995.

Graff, E J, What is Marriage for?, Beacon Press Boston, 1999.

Graham, Elaine, Making the Difference: gender, personhood and theology, Mowbray, 1995.

Gray, Janette, Neither escaping nor exploiting sex: women's celibacy, St Paul’s, 1995.

Grigg, Richard, When God becomes Godess: the transformation of American religion, Continuum, 1995.

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Hadley, Judith, The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: evidence for a Hebrew goddess, Stanford University Press, 2000.

Hall, Ronald, The Human Embrace: the love of philosophy and the philsophy of love: Kierkegaard, Cavell, Nussbaum, Penn State University Press, 1999.

Hamington, Maurice, Hail Mary? the struggle for ultimate womanhood in Catholicism, Routledge, 1995.

Hardy, Richard, Loving Men: gay partners, spirituality and AIDS, Continuum, 1998.

Hart, Clive, and Stevenson, K G, Heaven and the Flesh: images of desire from Renaissance to Rococo, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Hartman, Keith, Congregations in Conflict: the battle over homosexuality, Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Hayes, M, Porter, W and Tombs D (eds), Religion and Sexuality, Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

Hazel, Dan, Witness: gay and lesbian clergy report from the front, John Knox Press, 2000.

Henderson, Andrew (ed), Sexual Ethics – a Report of the Lesbian and Gay Clergy Consultation Group, Changing Attitude, 2004

Herman, Didi, The Antigay Agenda: orthodox vision and the Christian right, University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Herron, Fred, Rain for the Roots: a guide to building relationships, University Press of America, 1995.

Herzog, Dagmat, Intimacy and Exclusion: religious politics in pre-revolutionary Baden, Princeton University Press, 1996.

Hewitt, Marsha, Critical Theory of Religion: a feminist analysis, Fortress Press Minneapolis, 1995.

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Irigaray, Luce, I love to you: sketch of a possible felicity in history, Routledge, 1996.

Ind, Jo, Memories of Bliss: God, Sex and Us, SCM Press, 2003.

Isherwood, Lisa and Stuart, E, Introducing Body Theology, Sheffield Academic Press 1998.

Isherwood, Lisa (ed), The Good News of the Body: sexual theology and feminism, Sheffield Academic press, 2000.

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Jantzen, Grace, Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Jantzen, Grace, Becoming Divine: towards a feminist philosophy of religion, Manchester University Press, 2000.

Jensen, Anne, God's Self-confident Daughters: early Christianity and the liberation of women, Kok, 1996.

Jones, Prudence, and Pennick, N, A History of Pagan Europe, Routledge, 1997.

Jordan, Mark, The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology, Chicago University Press, 1997.

Jordan, Mark, The Silence of Sodom: homosexuality in modern Catholicism, Chicago university press, 2000.

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Kemp, Sandra and Squires, J (eds), Feminisms, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Kolbenschlag, Madonna, Eastward towards Eve: a geography of the soul, Crossroad, 1996.

Komesaroff, Paul (ed), Troubled Bodies: critical perspectives on postmodernism, Duke University Press, 1995.

Kraviec, Rebecca, Shenoute and Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Küng, Hans, Women in Christianity (trans. John Bowden; London and New York: Continuum, 2000)

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Leeming, David (ed),Mythology: the voyage of the hero, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Lewin, Ellen, Recognising Ourselves: ceremonies of lesbian and gay commitment, Columbia University Press, 1999.

Linzey, Andrew, and Kirker, Richard (eds), Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report, O Books, 2005.

Lochrie, Karma, Covert Operations; the mediaeval uses of secrecy, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Ludemann, Gerd, Virgin Birth? the real story of Mary and her son Jesus, SCM Press, 1998.

Lyons, Deborah, Gender and Immortality: heroines in ancient Greek myth and cult, Princeton University Press, 1997.

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Macfarlane, Alan, Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England, Routledge, 1999.

Maguire, Henry, The Icons of their Bodies: saints and their images in Byzantium, Princeton University Press, 1996.

May, Larry, Strikwerda, R and Hopkins, P (eds), Rethinking Masculinity: philosophical explorations in light of feminism, Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.

McLaughlin, Vincent, A Priestless People? a new vision for the Catholic priesthood, Canterbury Press, 1998.

McNamara, Jo Ann Kay, Sisters in Arms, Catholic nuns through the millennia, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Mielke, Arthus, Christians, Feminists and the Culture of Pornography, University Press of America, 1994.

Miles, Margaret, Plotinus on Body and Beauty: society, philosophy and religion in third-century Rome, Blackwell, 1999.

Miller, Monica, Sexuality and Authority in the Catholic Church, University of Scranton Press, 1995.

Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth, I am my Body, SCM Press, 1994.

Moltmann-Wendel, Elisabeth, Autobiography, SCM Press, 1997.

Moore, Stephen, God's Gym: divine male bodies of the Bible, Routledge, 1996.

Morea, Peter, Towards a Liberal Catholicism psychology and four women, SCM Press, 2000.

Mumm, Susan, Stolen Daughters, Virgin Mothers: Anglican Sisters in Victorian Britain, Leicester University Press, 1999.

Murray, Theresa and McLure, M, Moral Panic: exposing the religious right's agenda on sexuality, Cassell, 1995.

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Neave, Rosemary (ed), Conversations in the Closet: connecting sex and spirit, Ellerslie (NZ) Women's Resource Centre, 1999.

Nelson, James and Longfellow, S (eds), Sexuality and the Sacred: sources for theological reflection, Mowbray, 1994.

Neuger, Christia, and Poling, J (eds), The care of Men, Abingdon Press, 1997.

Nissinen, Marti, Homoeroticism in the Biblical World, Fortress Press Minneapolis, 1998.

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Ochs, Carol, Women and Spirituality, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.

Odets, Walt, In the Shadow of the Epidemic: being HIV-negative in the age of AIDS, Cassell, 1995.

O'Grady, Kathleen, Gilroy, A and Gray, J (eds), Bodies, Lives, Voices: gender in theology, Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

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Palazzo, Lynda, Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology (Crosscurrents in Religion and Culture; New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002)

Percy, Martyn (ed), Intimate Affairs: sexuality and spirituality, Darton Longman and Todd, 1997.

Phipps, William, The Sexuality of Jesus, Pilgrim Press, 1996.

Pickstone, Charles, For Fear of the Angels: how sex has usurped religion, Hodder & Stoughton, 1996.

Praetorius, Ina, Essays in Feminist Ethics, Peeters, 1998.

Primoratz, Igor, Ethics and Sex, Routledge, 1999.

Prokes, Mary, Towards a Theology of the Body, T & T Clark, 1996.

Pryce, Mark, Finding a Voice: men, women and the community of the Church, SCM Press, 1996.

Pui-Lan, Kwok, Introducing Asian Feminist Theology, Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

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Rambuss, Richard, Closet Devotions, Duke University Press, 1998.

Ramshaw, Gail, God beyond Gender: feminist Christian God-language, Fortress Press Minneapolis, 1995.

Raphael, Melissa, Introducing Thealogy: discourses on the Goddess, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Rashkow, Ilona, Taboo or not Taboo? Sexuality and family in the Hebrew Bible, Fortress Press Minneapolis, 2000.

Richards, David, Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: race, gender, religion as analogies, University of Chicago press, 1999.

Riley, Patrick, Civilising Sex: on chastity and the common good, T & T Clark, 2000.

Robinson, Paul, Gay Lives: homosexual autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette, University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Rogers, Eugene, Sexuality and the Christian Body, Blackwell, 1999.

Rudy, Kathy, Sex and the Church: gender, homosexuality and the transformation of Christian ethics, Beacon Press, 1997.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford, Women and Redemption: a theological history, SCM Press, 1998.

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Sample, Tex, and DeLong, A (eds), The Loyal Opposition: struggling with the Church on homosexuality, Abingdon Press, 1999.

Sawyer, Deborah, Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries, Routledge, 1996.

Sawyer, Deborah and Collier, D (eds), Is there a Future for Feminist Theology? Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Schlossberg, Terry, and Achtemeier, E, Not my own: abortion and the marks of the Church, Eerdmans, 1995.

Schulenberg, Jane, Forgetful of their Sex: female sanctity and society 500-1100, University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Scott, Drusilla, Michael Polanyi, SPCK, 1996.

Seow, Choon-Leong (ed), Homosexuality and Christian Community, John Knox Press, 1996.

Sered, Susan, Women of the Sacred Groves: divine priestesses of Okinawa, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Shallenberger, David, Reclaiming the Spirit: gay men and lesbians come to terms with religion, Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Sheres, Ita, and Blau, A K, The Truth about the Virgin: sex and ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Continuum, 1995.

Slee, Nicola, Women's Faith Development, Ashgate, 2004.

Smith, Anna-Marie, New Right Discourse on Race and Sexcuality: Britain 1968-1990, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Soble, Alan (ed), The Philosophy of Sex: contemporary readings, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.

Spencer, Daniel, Gay and Gaia: ethics, ecology and the erotic, Pilgrim Press, 1996.

Spong, John, Why Christianity must change or die, Harper San Francisco, 1998.

Stockton, Kathryn, God between their lips: desire between women in Irigaray, Bronte and Eliot, Stanford University Press, 1995.

Stuart, Elizabeth, Just Good Friends: towards a lesbian and gay theology of relationships, Mowbray, 1995.

Stuart, Elizabeth, Spitting at Dragons: towards a feminist theology of sainthood, Mowbray 1996.

Stuart, Elizabeth (ed), Religion is a Queer Thing: a guide to the Christian faith for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people, Cassell, 1997.

Stuart, Elizabeth, and Thatcher, A, People of Passion: what the Churches teach about sex, Mowbray, 1997.

Sullivan, Andrew, Virtually Normal: an argument about homosexuality, Picador, 1995.

Switzer, David, Coming out as parents: you and your homosexual child, John Knox Press, 1996.

Swan, Wallace (ed), Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender Public Policy Issues, Harrington Park Press, 1997.

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Thatcher, Adrian, Marriage after Modernity: Christian marriage in postmodern times, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999.

Third Millennium, the journal of Affirming Catholicism, Sex and the Christian Tradition, Affirming Catholicism, 2000.

Tilley, Maureen, and Ross, S (eds), Broken and Whole: essays on religion and the body, University Press of America, 1995.

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Wallace, Catherine, For Fidelity: how intimacy and commitment enrich our lives, Alfred A Knopf, 1998.

Walrond-Skinner, Sue, Double Blessing: clergy marriage since the ordination of women as priests, Cassell 1998.

Watson, Francis, Agape, Eros, Gender: towards a Pauline sexual ethic, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Weber, Alison, Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity, Princeton University Press, 1996.

Webster, Alison, Found wanting: women, Christianity and sexuality, Cassell, 1995.

Weir, Anthony, and Jerman, J, Images of Lust: sexual carvings on mediaeval churches, Routledge, 1999.

Westerkamp, Marilyn, Women and Religion in Early America 1600-1850: the Puritan and Evangelical traditions, Routledge, 1999.

White, Vernon, Paying Attention to People: an essay on individualism and Christian belief, SPCK, 1996.

Widdicombe, Peter, The Fatherhood of God from Origen to Athanasius, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry, Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: regulating desire, reforming practice, Routledge, 2000.

Wink, Walter (ed), Homosexuality and the Christian Faith: questions of conscience for the Churches, Fortress Press Minneapolis, 1999.

Wootton, Janet, Introducing a practical Feminist Theology of Worship, Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.

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Yip, Andrew, Gay Male Christian Couples: life stories, Praeger, 1997.

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