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Doing Church at the Amplify Open and Affirming Conferences
This book is a dedicated academic study of Amplify, a series of open and affirming Christian conferences in Asia that provides spaces of worship, support, fellowship, collaboration, and networking for LGBTIQ-affirming churches. Through a detailed analysis of narratives from fourteen Amplify frontliners comprising co-founders, hosts, organisers, co-organisers, speakers, consultants, and other active contributors, this volume chronicles the historical development of Amplify from its 2009 inception in Singapore to subsequent occurrences in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and, most recently, Taiwan in 2018. Written at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and theology, the focus of this volume lies in the construction of Asian LGBTIQ ecclesiologies that emanate from, and speak to the theological vision of doing church at Amplify.
Gay is OK!
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Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
“Eros opens up how the Good News of Jesus Christ contains, amongst its many, many implications, the possibility of openness and truth-telling about love between people of the same sex. These are part of the one, same communication of grace and mercy coming towards us from God. The friends and colleagues who Eros has brought together here show us something of what it looks like to have found yourself forced, by love, to stand your ground, and how the wolf deflates when it is faced with such faith.” James Alison (Theologian, priest and author) “In this book, another revolution is underway in gay Christians. Describing faith in the light of their ‘sinful’ sexuality is part of the tran...
Semiotics of Rape
In Semiotics of Rape, Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but a language through which a range of issues—including caste and gender hierarchies, control over land and labor, and the shape of justice—are contested. Rather than focus on the laws governing rape, Oza closely examines rape charges to show how the victims and survivors of rape reclaim their autonomy by refusing to see themselves as defined entirely by the act of violation. Oza also shows how rape cases become arenas where bureaucrats, village council members, caste communities, and the police debate women’s sexual subjectivities and how those varied understandings impact the status and reputations of individuals and groups. In this way, rape gains meaning beyond the level of the survivor and victim to create a social category. By tracing the shifting meanings of sexual violence and justice, Oza offers insights into the social significance of rape in India and beyond.
Asian American Religious Cultures [2 volumes]
A resource ideal for students as well as general readers, this two-volume encyclopedia examines the diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander spiritual experience. Despite constituting a fairly small proportion of the U.S. population—roughly 5 percent—Asian Americans are a widely diverse group with equally heterogeneous religious beliefs and traditions. This encyclopedia provides a single source for authoritative information on the Asian American and Pacific Islander religious experience, addressing South Asian Americans, such as Indian Americans and Pakistani Americans; East Asian Americans, including Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans; and Southeast Asian Americans, whose ethnicities include Filipino Americans, Thai Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. Pacific Islanders include Hawaiians, Samoans, Marshallese, Tongan, and Chamorro. The coverage includes not only traditional eastern belief systems and traditions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism as well as Micronesian and Polynesian religious traditions in the United States, but also the culture and religious rituals of Asian American Christians.
Suami Gay Isteri Mak Nyah
Buku ini mengisahkan tentang LGBT, iaitu kumpulan hak asasi manusia yang memperjuangkan kebebasan gender dan seksualiti dan membongkar agenda-agenda mereka, bahaya dan implikasi tuntutan mereka, dan cara penyelesaian konflik menurut perspektif Islam dan perundangan.
我們彎著返教會
同性戀、雙性戀、跨性別，是多年來極具爭議性的議題。同志總被視作異類，使他們無地自容。在家要面對家人及親友的不解；走出社會要面對大眾的歧視；求救於上帝，傳統教會卻要他們接受拗直治療。 性向是他們無從選擇及控制的，刻意拗直只會換來更大的痛苦。本書集結多位同志的經歷及心路歷程，從他們的內心世界、艱難的信仰之路，感受愛的真諦，讓讀者更了解性傾向和性別認同議題，避免不必要的誤解。 《我們彎著返教會》，是不同同志信徒的成長及生活見證。透過此書，你會看到他們對社會不公的控訴、因命運和身份帶來的痛苦、在感情路上的掙扎浮沉、如何面對誤解和誚弄。他們遇到上帝，曾以為會得到拯救，卻在教會面對著駭人的反對同志之聲，在若隱若現的信仰道路上，他們曾放棄、沮喪，最後亦靠著上帝的愛，得到真正的救贖。《聖經》沒有譴責過同志，無論「直」還是「彎」，都可以勇敢去愛。
The Laird's Captive Wife
Dark warrior, rebellious bride… Taken prisoner by the Norman invaders who destroyed her home and family, Lady Ashlynn finds her life in jeopardy—until her saviour comes in the form of a powerful Scottish warlord. Black Iain may be fierce, yet Ashlynn feels strangely safe in his arms… Iain McAlpin’s reputation is well deserved, and no one will capture his heart. Having loved and lost once before, Iain wants only to be free of the rebellious, enticing Ashlynn. But then a decree from the King arrives…and commands Iain to make his beautiful captive his wife!
The Language Instinct
'Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese...Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' - Independent 'A marvellously readable book...illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects' - Nature
