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Discourses of desire: sexuality and Christian women's visionary narratives.

This article compares and contrasts two autobiographical accounts by seventeenth-century Italian religious women: Benedetta Carlini of Pescia, and Maria Domitilla Galluzzi of Pavia. Both were visionaries, highly regarded by their communities, but subject to suspicion and close scrutiny by ecclesiastical authorities. The trial records of Benedetta Carlini relate a series of sexual contacts with her young assistant, while no overt sexual expression is evident in the life of Maria Domitilla Galluzzi. This article questions the relationship between the categories of scholars and the sexual self-understanding of figures in their own historical context. It suggests that "lesbian nun" is too simplistic a dichotomy, and that in comparison to the life of Maria Domitilla, Benedetta Carlini's sexuality revolved around an elaborate organic connection between the spiritual and the sensual.

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PubMed2005

Ex-gay rhetoric and the politics of sexuality: the Christian antigay/pro-family movement's "truth in love" ad campaign.

In 1998, a coalition of antigay, pro-family activist organizations published a set of full-page print advertisements in several nationally recognized newspapers. These ads promoted sexual (ex-gay) conversion therapy for homosexuals. I examine these advertisements as a contest over cultural symbols and values, and over the very definition of lesbian and gay identity. This discursive contest had the potential to impact activist politics greatly, but this impact was mitigated significantly by a similar set of ads produced in response by an opposing movement: the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement. The interactive dynamics between opposing movements impact the political field in which activists on each side pursue their goals.

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PubMed2003

A statistical comparison of the apparent importance of various prophets within early Islamic and Christian historical documents.

Counts were made for the number of times prophets were mentioned in both the Qur'an and in the New Testament. Within the New Testament, the name Jesus (Isa) is cited far more than any other notable figure. Within the Qur'an, Moses is cited most often, followed by Abraham and Noah. Statistical analysis indicates that Jesus is cited between 4th and 11th most often among the prophets of Islam, which seemed surprising to the author, given that Jesus is considered to be the ultimate prophet by many Muslims.

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PubMed2004

Relative proportion of ethical teaching versus historical events concerning Jesus in early Islamic and Christian historical documents.

The relative proportion of reports of events in the life of Jesus versus reports of his teachings are compared across the Qur'an and a sample of the New Testament (Luke 2-21). A much larger number of teachings (74) appear to be mentioned in the New Testament; at the same time, there are more teachings than events (52) reported, while the opposite is true (15 events, 3 teachings) in the Qur'an. The difference is significant statistically (p < .002). More research is needed to assess the sources of such differences.

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