Bernard Schlager

Associate Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies
Core Doctoral Faculty

At GTU since 2000

PhD., Yale University, 1996

Phone: 510/849-8278
E-mail: bschlager@psr.edu

 Current Research and Teaching Interests

• LGBTQ Religious History
• Welcoming Christianities
• History of Sexuality
• Medieval Social and Religious History
• Queer Studies
• LGBTQ Pastoral Care

Selected Publications

• Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk: LGBT Pastoral Care, Pilgrim Press, 2007.
• “Reading Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality as a Call to Action: Boswell and Gay-Affirming Movements in American Christianity.”  In The Boswell Thesis, University of Chicago Press, 2005.
• “‘The Dead Sea of Sodomy’: Giordano da Pisa on Men Who Have Sex With Men.” In Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire In Italian Literature And Film, Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.
•  “The Inquisition.” In Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.
• “Foundresses of the Franciscan Life: Umiliana Cerchi and Margaret of Cortona,” Viator 29,1998.
• “Saints Basil and John Chrysostom on the Education of Christian Children,”  Greek Orthodox Theological Review, 1991.