Looking up to Women in Transtheistic Faith and Practice

Abstract: In a spiritual and sexual autobiography reaching back from age 74 to estrogen in the womb and experience in the crib and the youth bed, an Emeritus Professor of World Religions draws lessons and inspiration from a life that could be called transgender, transexual, Queer or perverted or blessed. Perspectives include psychoanalysis, philosophy, feminist theory, church history, the sociology of higher education, biology, and theology. The author of six books, from Innocent Ecstasy to Birds in the World’s Religions , Gardella explains how the journey between Peter and Petra transformed their views of God, the Virgin Mary, and Original Sin.