Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Page, Sarah-Jane; Pilcher, Katy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking the notion of embodiment as a starting point, this volume maps the interconnecting relationships between religion, gender and sexuality. It highlight how the body - its location, the narratives that surround it, its movement and negotiations - is central to understanding these multifaceted relationships.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000291438
• Artikelnr.: 60670563

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)