Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality

Herausgegeben:Page, Sarah-Jane; Pilcher, Katy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking the notion of embodiment as a starting point, this volume maps the interconnecting relationships between religion, gender and sexuality.

The chapters highlight how the body - its location, the narratives that surround it, its movement and negotiations - is central to understanding these multifaceted relationships. The contributors recognise the ways in which gender and sexuality are crucial to how we embody religion and encourage a more complex and nuanced understanding of embodied religion. The material is organised according to three central themes: (1) the relationship between the religious and the secular; (2) power, regulation and resistance; and (3) the symbolism of gendered bodies.

Cutting across a range of disciplinary perspectives, Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality will be relevant to students of sociology, anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, theology and religious studies.

Produktdetails

• Gendering the Study of Religion in the Social Sciences
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780367672195
• ISBN-10: 0367672197
• Artikelnr.: 66684664

Autorenporträt

Sarah-Jane Page is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University, UK Katy Pilcher is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality


Sarah-Jane Page and Katy Pilcher (Aston University, UK)



Part I: Troubling Religious and Secular Dualisms


2. Contested Embodiment: The Use of Prayer in Public Displays of Anti-Abortion Activism

Sarah-Jane Page and Pam Lowe (Aston University, UK)

3. Speaking the Body: Examining the Intersections of Sexuality, Secularity and Religion in Dutch Sexuality Education



Brenda Bartelink and Jelle O. Wiering (University of Groningen)

1. Embodied Conversions and Sexual Selves: New Jewish, Christian and Muslim Women in the Netherlands

Lieke L. Schrijvers (Utrecht University, NL and Ghent University, BEL)



5. Embodying Religion, Gender and Citizenship: A Case Study of Muslim Girls Playing Football in a Dutch Urban Neighbourhood



Kathrine van den Bogert (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL)



Part II: Power, Regulation and Resistance





6. Letting the Juices Flow: Reclaiming the Body through Witchcraft



Emma Quilty (University of Newcastle, Australia)



7. Living an "Orgasmic" life: The Spiritual and Religious Journeys of Practitioners of Orgasmic Meditation



Katy Pilcher (Aston University, UK)



8. Reading Biblical Embodiment Cispiciously



Jo Henderson-Merrygold (University of Sheffield, UK)

9. Appropriate, Enigmatic, Aspirational: The Construction of Femininity in Online Videos for Evangelical Women's Conferences



Emily Winter (Lancaster University, UK)



Part III: The Symbolism of Gendered Bodies

10. The Empty Womb, the Unanswered Prayer: Female Infertility and Involuntary Childlessness in British Mormon Communities



Alison Halford (Coventry University, UK)



11. Premarital Pregnancy and Embodied Femininity: Women Policing Women in Nigeria's Christian Communities



George O. Amakor (Aston University, UK)



12. Tangled Layers: The Female Body in the Maghreb at the Intersection of Religion, History, and Culture



Rachida Yassine (Ibn Zohr University, Morocco)



13. Tying the Turban: Gendered Religious Fashion among Sikh Diaspora



Sara Bonfanti (University of Trento, IT)