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 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|74 pages
Troubling religious and secular dualisms
chapter 2|18 pages
Contested embodiment
chapter 3|18 pages
Speaking the body
chapter 4|19 pages
Embodied conversions and sexual selves
chapter 5|17 pages
Embodying religion, gender and citizenship
part II|69 pages
Power, regulation and resistance
chapter 7|19 pages
Living an ‘orgasmic’ life
chapter 9|17 pages
Appropriate, enigmatic, aspirational
part III|72 pages
The symbolism of gendered bodies