Sexuality, Religion and the Sacred

Bisexual, Pansexual and Polysexual Perspectives
Herausgeber: Hutchins, Loraine; Sharif Williams, H.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a thoughtful collection of bisexual, polysexual and pansexual scholarship on religion and spirituality. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138023994
• ISBN-10: 113802399X
• Artikelnr.: 42482815

Autorenporträt

Loraine Hutchins teaches inter-disciplinary sexuality studies. Her 2001 Cultural Studies doctoral dissertation documented contemporary U.S. sacred sexualities, particularly those with a queer feminist focus. She co-edited Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, which was awarded a '100 best LGBT books of the 20th century' award by Lambda Book Review. She is a national leader in the U.S. bisexual movement, as well as an independent scholar writing on sexuality and spirituality issues. H. Sharif Williams is a clinical sociologist, sexologist, educator, and cultural theorist, and is the founder of Black Funk: The Center for Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality, USA. Under his spiritual name Herukhuti, he is the author of Conjuring Black Funk: Notes on Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality, Volume 1. He is a faculty member at Goddard College, USA. An initiate and practitioner of African wisdom traditions since the age of fourteen, he is spiritual godfather, advisor and teacher to various practitioners around the world and keeper of the Shrine of Sekhmet and Heruhet, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction: Our Hearts Hold These Intimate Connections Part I:
Christian and Unitarian Discourses 1. Not Even on the Page: Freeing God
from Heterocentrism 2. Re-enforcing Binaries, Downgrading Passions:
Bisexual Invisibility in Mainstream Queer Christian Theology 3. Bi
Christian Unitarian: A Theology of Transgression 4. Developing a Bisexual
Adult Religious Education Curriculum Part II: Indigenous and Decolonizing
Spiritual Discourses 5. Living with Dual Spirits: Spirituality, Sexuality,
and Healing in African Diaspora 6. Bodeme in Harlem: An African Diasporic
Autoethnography 7. Colonial Legacies, Decolonized Spirits: Balboa, Ugandan
Martyrs, and AIDS Solidarity Today 8. Make It Funky Now: The Birth of Funk
Studies - A Review of Conjuring Black Funk: Notes on Culture, Sexuality,
and Spirituality, Volume 1 by Herukhuti Part III: Feminist Spiritual
Discourses 9. Reading Althaus-Reid: As a Bi FeministTheo/Methodological
Resource 10. Bisexual Women as Emblematic Sexual Healers and the
Problematics of the Embodied Sexual Whore 11. Bi bell: Spirituality and the
Sexual Intellectual 12. Non-Monogamous Bisexuality as a Practice of
Spiritual Freedom in The Color Purple Part IV: Buddhist Discourses 13. The
Third Precept: Towards a Buddhist Ethics of Bisexuality 14. Bi, Buddhist,
Activist: Refusing Intolerance, But Not Refusing Each Other Part V:
Neo/Pagan Discourses 15. The Sacredness of Pleasure 16. "All Cool Women
Should Be Bisexual:" Female Bisexual Identity in an American NeoPagan
Community 17. Review of Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly
Planet by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio