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Bringing together disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences, this Handbook presents novel and lively examinations of the dynamic ways religion, gender and sexuality operate. Applying feminist, intersectional, and reflexive approaches, the volume aims to loosen imperialist and exclusionary figurations that have underwritten and tethered religion, gender, and sexuality together. While holding onto the field of inquiry, the Handbook offers contributions that interrogate and untie it from the terms and conditions that have formed it. The volume is organized into thematic sections: - Forces and Futures - Activisms and Labors - Agencies and Practices - Relationships and Institutions - Texts and Objects Chapters range across religious, geographical, historical, political, and social contexts and feature an array of case-studies, experiences, and topics that exemplify the reflexive intention of the volume, including explorations of race, whiteness, colonialism, and the institutional intolerance of minority groups. Contributors also advance new areas of research in religion including artificial intelligence, farming, migrant mothering, child sexual abuse, mediatization, national security, legal frameworks, addiction and recovery, decolonial hermeneutics, creative arts, sport, sexual practices, and academic friendship. This is an essential contribution to the fields of religious studies and gender and sexuality studies.

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In this superbly edited collection, critical attention is given to how racist and colonialist politics have shaped the study of religion, gender, and sexuality. The reflexivity and reciprocity between the editors exemplifies how feminist collegiality inspires transformative knowledge, showcased in the remarkably insightful contributions that is sure to shift the field. * Sarojini Nadar, Desmond Tutu Research Chair in Religion and Social Justice, University of the Western Cape, South Africa * This is a sumptuous volume that is boldly ground-breaking in celebrating the diversity of genders, sexualities in religions in a global context. I am excited that this scholarship borne of feminist friendships and kindness, decolonises the enterprise of knowledge building by giving voice and visibility to those under-studied. I unreservedly recommend The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender and Sexuality. * Sharon A. Bong, Professor of Gender Studies, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia * This Handbook opens up the field of religion, gender, and sexuality in empirically rich and theoretically astute ways, with a firm commitment to scholarly reflexivity. The contributions destabilize the categories of religion, gender, and sexuality, elucidating how they are shaped by histories and epistemologies, and demonstrating their complexity in diverse religious, cultural, and geographical contexts. * Adriaan van Klinken, Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds, UK *

In this superbly edited collection, critical attention is refreshingly given to how racist and colonialist politics have shaped the study of religion, gender and sexuality. The reflexivity and reciprocity between the editors 'jumps off the page!' It exemplifies how feminist collegiality inspires transformative knowledge that is showcased in the remarkably insightful contributions that is sure to shift the field. * Sarojini Nadar, Desmond Tutu Research Chair in Religion and Social Justice, University of the Western Cape, South Africa * This is a sumptuous volume that is boldly ground-breaking in celebrating the diversity of genders, sexualities in religions in a global context. I am excited that this scholarship borne of feminist friendships and kindness, decolonises the enterprise of knowledge building by giving voice and visibility to those under-studied. I unreservedly recommend The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender and Sexuality. * Sharon A. Bong, Professor of Gender Studies, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia * This state-of-the-art Handbook opens up the field of religion, gender and sexuality in empirically rich and theoretically astute ways, with a firm commitment to scholarly reflexivity. Critically, the contributions decentre and destabilize the categories of “religion”, “gender” and “sexuality”, elucidating how they are shaped by particular histories and epistemologies, and demonstrating their ambiguity and complexity in diverse religious, cultural and geographical contexts. * Adriaan van Klinken, Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds, UK *

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Sîan Hawthorne is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Religion and Politics at SOAS, University of London, UK. Dawn Llewellyn is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender at the University of Chester, UK. Sonya Sharma is Associate Professor of Sociology at University College London, UK.

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