The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender

Herausgeber: Boisvert, Donald L; Daniel-Hughes, Carly

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How do religion, gender and sexuality interact? How have they impacted, and continue to impact, human culture? The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender brings together, for the first time, the key texts in the field. Designed as a textbook for use in a classroom setting, it offers thought-provoking selections of some of the most compelling and timely readings available today. The Reader is divided into three parts (bodies; desires; performances). Each considers, from a thematic perspective, the ways in which people have made sense of their religious and sexual experiences, the ways they imagine and talk about gender, sex and the sacred, and the multiple meanings they ascribe to them. Traditions represented include indigenous spiritualities, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Asian traditions and new religious movements. Some readings are more theoretical or historical in nature, thereby providing wide-ranging contexts for reflection and discussion. The reader includes extensive introductions to the book as a whole and to each of the three parts, as well as short paragraphs contextualizing each of the readings. Each section includes discussion questions for classroom use; additional readings and resources, as well as a glossary of key terms, are also provided. The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender is an ideal resource for courses on religion and sexuality, religion and gender, or religion and contemporary culture more generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 169mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781474237789
• ISBN-10: 1474237789
• Artikelnr.: 43777191

Autorenporträt

Donald L. Boisvert is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Canada, where he also teaches in the sexuality studies programme. He is the author of Out on Holy Ground: Meditations on Gay Men's Spirituality (2000) and Sanctity and Male Desire: A Gay Reading of Saints (2004). He co-edited the two volume reference collection, Queer Religion (2013). Carly Daniel-Hughes is Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia University, Canada where she teaches courses in Christian history as well as gender, sexuality and religion. She is the author of The Salvation of the Flesh in Tertullian of Carthage: Dressing for the Resurrection (2011) and co-editorof Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Permissions Acknowledgements Introduction to the Volume Part I: Bodies 1.
Introduction 2. Stereotypes, False Images, Terrorism: The White Assault
upon Black Sexuality. (Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist
Perspective) Kelly Brown Douglas 3. Sin (Seeking the Straight and Narrow:
Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America) Lynne Gerber
4. Blood, Sweat, and Urine: The Scent of Feminine Fluids in Anton Szandor
LaVey's The Satanic Witch.(International Journal for the Study of New
Religious Movements)Cimminnee Holt 5. Sex (Critical Terms for the Study of
Buddhism) Janet Gyatso 6. The Ultimate Man (A Bull of a Man: Images of
Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism) John Powers 7. Mitzvot
Built into the Body: Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy and Childbirth. (People
of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective) Chava Weissler
8. Gendering the Ungendered Body: Hermaphrodites in Medieval Islamic Law. (
Women in Middle Eastern History) Paula Sanders 9. "Mildred, Is It Fun to Be
a Cripple?" The Culture of Suffering in Mid-Twentieth Century American
Catholicism." (Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make
and the Scholars Who Study Them) Robert Orsi 10. Discussion Questions Part
2: Desires 1. Introduction 2. Introduction: Axiomatic (Epistemology of the
Closet) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 3. Scientia Sexualis (The History of
Sexuality: An Introduction: Volume I) Michel Foucault 4. Law and Desire in
the Talmud (Eros and the Jews) David Biale 5. Tongues Untied: Memoirs of a
Pentecostal Boyhood." (Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology) Michael
Warner 6. Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines (Toward a
Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline) Amy
Hollywood 7. Kukai and the Tradition of Male Love in Japanese Buddhism (
Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender) Paul Gordon Schalow 8. The Passions of St.
Pelagius (The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology) Mark Jordan 9.
Masturbation, Salvation, and Desire: Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial
Mexico (Journal of the History of Sexuality) Zeb Tortorici 10. Discussion
Questions Part 3: Performances 1. Introduction 2. Gender Trouble: Feminism
and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler 3. Witches, Female Priests,
and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)stabilizing Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban
Religion of African Origin. (Gender and History) Carolyn Watson 4. Mama
Lola and the Ezilis: Themes of Mothering and Love in Haitian Vodou (
Unspoken Words: Women's Religious Lives) Karen McCarthy Brown 5.
(Per)formative Selves: The Production of Gender." (With Respect to Sex:
Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India) Gayatri Reddy 6. Toward a Queer
Theology of Flourishing: Transsexual Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Moral
Agency (Queer Religion: LGBT Movements and Queering Religion) Jakob Hero
7. Intimacy Surveiled: Religion, Sex, and Secular Cunning (Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society) Mayanthi Fernando 8. Release from Bondage:
Sex, Suffering, and Sanctity (The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on
Sexuality) Daniel Lehrman 9. "Nakedness, Non-Violence, and Brahmacharya:
Gandhi's Experiments in Celibate Sexuality." (Journal of the History of
Sexuality) Vinay Lal 10. Discussion Questions Glossary Index