Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 906 g
Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 906 g
ISBN: 978-1-4094-0949-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality provides academics and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in the area of sexuality and religion, broadly defined. This collection of expert essays offers an inter-disciplinary study of the important aspects of sexuality and religion, calling upon sociological, cultural, historical and theological contributions to an under-researched subject. The Companion focuses on the exploration of diverse religious faiths, spiritualities, and sexualities with contributions that embrace many contrasting approaches related to the contemporary context. By adopting a truly inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional perspective, the Companion embraces the complexities of both sexuality and religion. Aimed primarily at a readership with specialist interest in both, The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality offers an innovative and refreshing analysis of key theoretical and empirical issues in an increasingly relevant and expanding area of academic interest. The Companion comprises five main thematic sections, each with chapters ranging across a variety of crucial topics traversing various faith traditions. The principal themes are: epistemological and methodological issues; the significance of religious text; institutional religious settings; stability transformation and change; contesting hegemonic structures and discourses. Each section includes four chapters contributed by leading international experts in their respective fields and who are at the cutting-edge of current research. Collectively, they offer an inter-disciplinary and comprehensive survey of sexuality and religion.
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Contents: Introduction, Stephen J. Hunt and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip; Part 1 Epistemological and Methodological Issues: To know in the Biblical sense? Abrahamic religious epistemologies of sexuality and gender, Susannah Cornwall; Feminist critique of sexuality and religion, Lisa Isherwood; Queer theory, sexuality and religion, Olu Jenzen and Sally R. Munt; Looking ’in’ from the ’outside’: the methodological challenges of researching minority ethnic gay men and lesbian women, Asifa Siraj. Part 2 Religious Texts: Reading about sex in the Bible: coping with ambiguities, Adrian Thatcher; Competing identities: uniformity versus diversity in the Roman Catholic priesthood, Jane Anderson; Textual queerings: contesting Islam as heteronormative inheritance, Dervla Shannahan; Menstruation, sexuality and spirituality in Buddhism, Kustiani Kustiani and Stephen J. Hunt. Part 3 Institutional Settings: Virginity in a multidimensional perspective: negotiating pre-marital sex in Dakar, Anouka van Eerdewijk; Probing the boundaries: how religion and sexuality are negotiated within Islamic educational institutions, Fida Sanjakdar; Separating Church and God: an exploration of gay clergymen’s negotiations with institutional church, Michael Keenan; Bisexuality and Christianity: negotiating disparate identities in Church life, Alex Toft. Part 4 Stability, Transformation and Change: Contextualising sexuality and religiosity in contemporary social changes, David A.J. Richards; The queer case of Hinduism: religious discourse and the legitimacy of non-heterosexuality, Stephen J. Hunt; Virgin pride: born again faith and sexual identity in the faith-based abstinence movement, Heather Rachelle White; Risk and the imagined future: young adults negotiating religious and sexual identities, Sarah-Jane Page, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip and Michael Keenan. Part 5 Contesting Hegemonic Structures and Discourses: Contesting sex-restrictive sexual narratives from within: Jewish laws of menstrual purity and Ort
