Mark D. Jordan

Mark D. Jordan
Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Contact Information

Charlene Higbe
chigbe@hds.harvard.edu
617.495.4518

On Leave

  • Academic year 2011-12

Education

  • BA, St. John's College
  • MA, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Profile

Mark Jordan taught previously at the University of Notre Dame and at Emory University. His interests include the rhetoric of Christian ethics, the history of sex and gender, the limits of theological language, and the ritual creation of religious identities. His books include The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (1997), winner of the 1999 John Boswell Prize for lesbian and gay history; The Ethics of Sex (2002); Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech (2003); Rewritten Theology: Aquinas after His Readers (2006); and Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality (2011).

Current and Future Courses

Selected Publications

  • Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2011) Publisher page
  • Rewritten Theology: Aquinas after His Readers (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006) Publisher page
  • Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage (University of Chicago, 2005) Publisher page
  • Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech (Beacon Press, 2003) Publisher page
  • The Ethics of Sex (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002) Publisher page
  • The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism (University of Chicago Press, 2000) Publisher page
  • The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (University of Chicago Press, 1997) Publisher page

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