Religion and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 27 September 2002
- ISBN 9780415941280
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages270 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Issues of sexuality and gender are hotly contested in both religious communities and national cultures around the world. In the social sciences, religious traditions are often depicted as inherently conservative or even reactionary in their commitments to powerful patriarchal and pronatalist sexual norms and gender categories. In illuminating the practices of religious traditions in various cultures, these essays expose the diversity of religious rituals and mythologies pertaining to sexuality. In the process the contributors challenge conventional notions of what is normative in our sexual lives.
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Issues of sexuality and gender are hotly contested in both religious communities and national cultures around the world. In the social sciences, religious traditions are often depicted as inherently conservative or even reactionary in their commitments to powerful patriarchal and pronatalist sexual norms and gender categories. In illuminating the practices of religious traditions in various cultures, these essays expose the diversity of religious rituals and mythologies pertaining to sexuality. In the process the contributors challenge conventional notions of what is normative in our sexual lives.
"Ellingson's introduction to this volume asserts that "religion" is important "as a system of faith and ethics." Rooted in the Abrahamic traditions, such definitions are not necessarily pertinent to a "cross-cultural perspective" and are under renegotiation on the social sciences and humanities today. The eight distinguished senior scholars whose work Ellingson and Green have brought together write of religions and sexualities...Religion and Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective contains far more advanced and stimulating thinking-like the Comaroffs'-on both religions and embodiment... Journal of Anthropological Research 2003 ."
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements, Introduction , STEPHEN ELLINGSON , Part I/Fecundism, Ideologies of Reproduction, and Sexual Identity, 1 Cultural Production and Reproductive Issues , The Significance of the Charismatic Movement in Nigeria, TOLA OLU PEARCE, 2 Sex, Rhetoric, and Ontology , Fecundism as an Ethical Problem, WILLIAM R. LAFLEUR, 3 The Mythology of the Masquerading Post-Menopausal Women, WENDY DONIGER , , PartII/ Binary Sexual Categories , 4 Beyond Binary Categories, Mesoamerican Religious Sexuality, SYLVIA MARCOS , 5 The Hijras, An Alternative Gender in Indian Culture , SERENA NANDA, 6 Mimesis in the Face of Fear , Femme Queens, Butch Queens, and Gender Play in the Houses of Greater Newark , KAREN MCCARTHY BROWN , , Part III/ Power and Domination , 7 Tacit Containment , Social Value, Embodiment and Gender Practice in Northern Sudan , JANICE BODDY , 8 Millennial Capitalism, Occult Economies and the Crisis of Reproduction in South Africa, JEAN AND JOHN COMAROFF , , Contributors , Index
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