The Bloomsbury reader in religion, sexuality, and gender / edited by Donald L. Boisvert and Carly Daniel-Hughes.

Other author Boisvert, Donald L., 1951-2019 editor.
Other author Daniel-Hughes, Carly, 1974- editor.
Format Book
PublicationLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Descriptionxi, 271 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Sex--Religious aspects.
Gender identity--Religious aspects.

Contents Part one : Bodies. Introduction -- Stereotypes, false images, terrorism : the white assault upon Black sexuality / Kelly Brown Douglas -- Sin / Lynne Gerber -- Blood, sweat, and urine : the scent of feminine fluids an Anton Szandor LaVey's The satanic witch / Cimminnee Holt -- Sex / Janet Gyatso -- The ultimate man / John Powers -- Tkhines for niddah, pregnancy and childbirth / Chava Weissler -- Gendering the ungendered body : hermaphrodites in medieval Islamic law / Paula Sanders -- "Mildred, is it fun to be a cripple?" : the culture of suffering in mid-twentieth century American Catholicism / Robert A. Orsi -- Discussion questions -- Part two : Desires. Introduction. Introduction : axiomatic / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Scientia sexualis / Michel Foucault -- Law and desire in the Talmud / David Biale -- Tongues untied : memoirs of a Pentecostal boyhood / Michael Warner -- Sexual desire, divine desire ; or, queering the beguines / Amy Hollywood -- Kūkai and the tradition of male love in Japanese Buddhism / Paul Gordon Schalow -- The passions of St. Pelaguis / Mark D. Jordan -- Masturbation, salvation, and desire : connecting sexuality and religiosity in colonial Mexico / Zeb Tortorici -- Discussion questions -- Part three : Performances. Introduction -- Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity / Judith Butler -- Witches, female priests and sacred manoeuvres : (de)stabilizing gender and sexuality in a Cuban religion of African origin / Carolyn E. Watson -- Mama Lola and the Ezilis : themes of mothering and loving in Haitian vodou / Karen McCarthy Brown -- (Per)formative selves : the production of gender / Gayatri Reddy -- Toward a queer theology of flourishing : transsexual embodiment, subjectivity, and moral agency / Jakob Hero -- Intimacy surveilled : religion, sex, and secular cunning / Mayanthi Fernando -- Release from bondage : sex, suffering, and sanctity / Daniel A. Lehrman -- Nakedness, nonviolence, and brahmacharya : Gandhi's experiments in celibate sexuality / Vinay Lal -- Discussion questions.
General noteIncludes index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Bloomsbury reader in religion, sexuality, and gender New York : Bloomsbury, 2016 9781474237802
LCCN 2016018830
ISBN9781474237796 (hardback)
ISBN1474237797 (hardback)
ISBN9781474237789 (pbk.)
ISBN1474237789 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks BL65 .S4 B63 2017 ✔ Available Place Hold