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Dworkin, Sari H. – 1990
Managing a marginal identity different from the dominant culture is a difficult process. For a woman who is a lesbian and also Jewish, this means feeling marginal in each of the communities she considers to be her primary support systems. Within the Jewish community, lesbianism is not acceptable, and within the lesbian community, there is often…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Jews, Judaism, Lesbianism
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Leighton, Christopher M. – Religious Education, 1996
Examines the role of polemical discourse (heated and confrontational arguments often aimed at an opponent) in the early formation of the Christian church. Maintains that these linguistic habits still exert a powerful and often destructive influence. Discusses several biblical stories in terms of polemical discourse and offers alternative…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Christianity, Cultural Interrelationships, Discourse Analysis