| Description |
xv, 336 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Ashgate research companion |
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Ashgate research companion.
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| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pt.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, Sally R. Munt -- Looking 'in' from the 'outside' : the methodological challenges of researching minority ethnic gay men and lesbian women / Asifa Siraj -- Pt.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, Stephen J. Hunt -- Pt.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 -- Pt.4 Stability, transformation and change : Contextualizing 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, Michael Keenan -- Pt.5 Contesting hegemonic structures and discourses : Contesting sex-restrictive sexual narratives from within : Jewish laws of menstrual purity and orthodox sexual anxieties / Orit Avishai -- 'It's a Tefillin date' : alternative narratives of Orthodox Jewish sexuality in the digital age / Simon Theobald -- Contestations, reinscriptions : negotiating the world's of sexuality and religion in the United States / Melissa Wilcox -- Exploring Islamic masculinities through the Qur'anic Adam / Amanullah De Sondy. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Sex -- Religious aspects.
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| Added Author |
Hunt, Stephen, 1954-
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Yip, Andrew K. T., 1963-
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| Added Title |
Research companion to contemporary religion and sexuality |
| ISBN |
9781409409496 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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140940949X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9781409409502 (ebook) |
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1409409503 (ebook) |
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9781409472254 (ebk. - ePUB) |
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1409472256 (ebk. - ePUB) |
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