Yet a lot of that scholarship has pushed back against CSTH, critiquing his analytical categories and terminology and his use of source material.
Many younger scholars were inspired by his writings, and much work has been produced on the history of gender and sexuality since Boswell's death. From the perspective of several decades later, both Boswell's hopes and fears have been realised, to varying extents. Publisher: The University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226345222 Number of pages: 456 Weight: 709 g Dimensions: 23 x 17 x 3 mm Edition: 35th Anniversary Edition You may also be interested in.In his conclusion to Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, John Boswell states that as such little work had been done on this topic before-which, at the time of this book's publication was certainly true-"the writer on this subject cannot hope to avoid leading his readers down many wrong paths or, occasionally, coming to a dead end", and begs the reader's forbearance in the hopes that future scholars will build on his work. This landmark book helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
Jordan, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality is still fiercely relevant. Now in this thirty-fifth anniversary edition with a new foreword by leading queer and religious studies scholar Mark D.
The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members-among them priests, bishops, and even saints-when it was first published thirty-five years ago.
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