Embodying religion, gender and sexuality / edited by Sarah-Jane Page and Katy Pilcher.

Other author Page, Sarah-Jane.
Other author Pilcher, Katy.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Descriptionpages cm
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SeriesGendering the study of religion in the social sciences
Contents Intoduction : embodying religion, gender and sexualities / Sarah-Jane Page and Katy Pilcher -- Contested embodiment : the use of prayer in public displays of anti-abortion activism / Sarah-Jane Page and Pam Lowe -- Speaking the body : examining the intersections of sexuality, secularity and religion in Dutch sexuality education / Brenda Bartelink and Jelle Wiering -- Embodied conversions and sexual selves : new Jewish, Christian and Muslim women in the Netherlands / Lieke Schrijvers -- Embodying religion, gender and citizenship : a case-study of Muslim girls playing football in a Dutch urban neighbourhood / Kathrine van den Bogert -- Letting the juices flow : reclaiming the body through witchcraft / Emma Quilty -- Living an "orgasmic" life : the spiritual and religious journeys of practitioners of orgasmic meditation / Katy Pilcher -- Reading Biblical embodiment cispiciously / Jo Henderson-Merrygold -- Appropriate, enigmatic, aspirational : the construction of femininity in online videos for evangelical women's conferences / Emily Winter -- The empty womb, the unanswered prayer : female infertility and involuntary childlessness in British Mormon communities / Alison Halford -- Premarital pregnancy and embodied femininity : women policing women in Nigeria's Christian communities / George Amakor -- Tangled layers : the female body in the Maghreb at the intersection of religion, history, and culture / Rachida Yassine -- Tying the turban : gendered religious fashion among Sikh diaspora / Sara Bonfanti.
Abstract "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 is 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 sociology, anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, theology and religious studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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