{"id":77,"date":"2009-04-07T09:44:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:34:02","slug":"sensuous_spirituality_out_from_fundament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/sensuous_spirituality_out_from_fundament\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensuous Spirituality: Out From Fundamentalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey. <em>Sensuous Spirituality: Out From Fundamentalism.<\/em> Revised and Expanded Edition. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2008. 256 pages. $25.00. ISBN: 9780829818055.<\/p>\n<p>Influenced by <strong>John Milton<\/strong>&#8216;s creation of the word <em>sensuous<\/em> [to avoid associations with the word <em>sensual<\/em>], <strong>Virginia Ramey Mollenkott<\/strong> considers the LGBT community&#8217;s place within Christian theology.<\/p>\n<p>First, she examines her own spiritual life journey, that of being &#8220;forced out of the fundamentalist community&#8221; due to her &#8220;female secondariness, [her] transgender qualities, and [her] sexual orientation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next, Mollenkott thoroughly explores the impact of heteropatriarchal power on history, culture, and Christianity, and examines how bridges can be built between those of differing theological views.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sensuous Spirituality<\/em> would best serve patrons in academic libraries specializing in religion and theology, gender studies, and feminism.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by <strong>Dave Combe<br \/>\n<\/strong>E. P. Foster Library<br \/>\nVentura, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mollenkott, Virginia Ramey. Sensuous Spirituality: Out From Fundamentalism. Revised and Expanded Edition. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2008. 256 pages. $25.00. ISBN: 9780829818055. Influenced by John Milton&#8216;s creation of the word sensuous [to avoid associations with the word sensual], Virginia Ramey Mollenkott considers the LGBT community&#8217;s place within Christian theology. First, she examines her own spiritual life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}