Overview

Taking the notion of embodiment as a starting point, this volume maps the interconnecting relationships between religion, gender and sexuality. The chapters highlight how the body – its location, the narratives that surround it, its movement and negotiations – is central to understanding these multifaceted relationships. The contributors recognise the ways in which gender and sexuality are crucial to how we embody religion and encourage a more complex and nuanced understanding of embodied religion. The material is organised according to three central themes: (1) the relationship between the religious and the secular; (2) power, regulation and resistance; and (3) the symbolism of gendered bodies. Cutting across a range of disciplinary perspectives, Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality will be relevant to students of sociology, anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, theology and religious studies.

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Author:   Sarah-Jane Page (Aston University, UK) ,  Katy Pilcher (Aston University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780367672195

ISBN 10:   0367672197
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Embodying Religion, Gender and Sexuality Sarah-Jane Page and Katy Pilcher (Aston University, UK) Part I: Troubling Religious and Secular Dualisms 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) 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)"

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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

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