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The Silence of Sodom (Hardcover, New)
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The Silence of Sodom (Hardcover, New)
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Sexual scandals in the Roman Catholic Church have been highly
public in recent years, and increasingly shrill directives from the
Vatican about homosexuality have become commonplace. The visibility
of these issues begs the question of how the Catholic Church can be
at once so homophobic and so homoerotic. Mark D. Jordan, the
authors of the award-winning "The Invention of Sodomy in Christian
Theology", takes up this fundamental question in a deeply learned
yet readable study of the relationship between male homosexuality
and Catholicism. "The Silence of Sodom" is devoted, first, to
teasing out the Church's complex bureaucratic language about sexual
morality. Rather than trying to point out that official Catholic
documents are simply wrong in their discussions and directives
regarding homosexuality, Jordan examines the rhetorical devices
used by the Church throughout its history to actively produce
silence around the topic of male homosexuality. Arguing that we
cannot find the Church's knowledge of homosexuality in its
documents, Jordan looks to the unspoken but widely known features
of clerical culture to illuminate the striking analogies between
clerical institutions and contemporary gay culture, particularly in
the mechanisms of discipline, the training of seminarians and the
ambiguities of liturgical celebration. The Catholic Church's long
experiment with masculine desire cannot be discovered through
sensationalist trials of priest-paedophiles or surveys of gay
clergy. "The Silence of Sodom" looks deeply into the intertwining,
in words and deeds, of Catholicism with homoeroticism; it is a
profound reflection on both "being gay" and "being Catholic".
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