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Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest
Bernard Duncan Mayes
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Description for Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest
Hardcover. Mayes, a gay activist and former priest, recounts how social and doctrinal oppression posed fundamental challenges to his own belief system, but led him to revelations about sexuality, Christianity, and the nature of human existence itself. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; HRCC91; HRCX6; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
He survived a turbulent childhood in war-torn London, earned degrees with honors from Cambridge University, was ordained in the Church of England, became an Anglican worker-priest, and emigrated to the United States. He has been a prolific broadcaster for the BBC, helped organize the Public Broadcasting System in America, was a founding chairman of National Public Radio, and became a senior management consultant for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He designed and directed the first system of suicide and crisis counseling centers in California (a model for later centers nationwide) and helped found the Parsonage, an Episcopalian ministry on behalf ... Read more
He survived a turbulent childhood in war-torn London, earned degrees with honors from Cambridge University, was ordained in the Church of England, became an Anglican worker-priest, and emigrated to the United States. He has been a prolific broadcaster for the BBC, helped organize the Public Broadcasting System in America, was a founding chairman of National Public Radio, and became a senior management consultant for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He designed and directed the first system of suicide and crisis counseling centers in California (a model for later centers nationwide) and helped found the Parsonage, an Episcopalian ministry on behalf ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813920047
SKU
V9780813920047
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About Bernard Duncan Mayes
A gay activist, NPR founder, and former Episcopal priest tells the story of his struggle with his culture and church doctrine
Reviews for Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest
Bernard Mayes has led an unusual and exemplary life: He is part of the first generation of men who have used the means of civil society to affirm the validity of sexual desires, practices, and relationships between men, and on this topic he is thoughtful, eloquent, and at times very moving. - Richard Dellamora, author of Masculine Desire and Apocalyptic ... Read more