ISBN10: 0226410412, ISBN13: 9780226410418, [publisher: University of Chicago Press] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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University of Chicago Press, Date: 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight wear on upper edge of text. Otherwise pristine 2000. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226410412 9780226410418 [US]

Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 2000. 322 p. Bound in the publisher's grey cloth with dustjacket (In very good condition.) Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press 2000 ISBN 0226410412 9780226410418 [NL]

Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, Date: 2000. ix, 322p., dj. 2000. University of Chicago Press ISBN 0226410412 9780226410418 [US]

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New. 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 ...