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Para la libertad nos ha liberado
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ISBN: 6078528254 607852822X 9786078528226 Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Cátedra

Anything but Straight : Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth.
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ISBN: 9786613851314 1136326405 1283538865 0203121279 9781136326400 9780203121276 9781136326356 9781136326394 9781560234456 9781560234463 1136326391 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York : Florence : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group [distributor]


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Homosexualität im Kontext von Bibel, Theologie und Seelsorge
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ISBN: 3417293685 9783417293685 Year: 1991 Volume: 368 Publisher: Wuppertal Brockhaus


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Homosexualität : eine Herausforderung für Theologie uns Seelsorge
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ISBN: 378671245X 9783786712459 Year: 1986 Publisher: Mainz Matthias-Grünewald


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Homosexuels catholiques, sortir de l'impasse.
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ISBN: 9782708242012 2708242016 Year: 2012 Publisher: Ivry-sur-Seine Ed. de l'Atelier

Straight to Jesus : sexual and Christian conversions in the ex-gay movement
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ISBN: 9786612358180 1282358189 0520939050 9780520939059 0520245814 0520245822 9780520245815 9780520245822 9781282358188 6612358181 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Every year, hundreds of gay men and lesbians join ex-gay ministries in an attempt to convert to non-homosexual Christian lives. In this fascinating study of the transnational ex-gay movement, Tanya Erzen focuses on the everyday lives of men and women at New Hope Ministry, a residential ex-gay program, over the course of several years. Straight to Jesus traces the stories of people who have renounced long-term relationships and moved from other countries out of a conviction that the conservative Christian beliefs of their upbringing and their own same-sex desires are irreconcilable. Rather than definitively changing from homosexual to heterosexual, the participants experience a conversion that is both sexual and religious as born-again evangelical Christians. At New Hope, they maintain a personal relationship with Jesus and build new forms of kinship and belonging. By becoming what they call "new creations," these men and women testify to religious transformation rather than changes in sexual desire or behavior. Straight to Jesus exposes how the Christian Right attempts to repudiate gay identity and political rights by using the ex-gay movement as evidence that "change is possible." Instead, Erzen reveals, the realities of the lives she examines actually undermine this anti-gay strategy.

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