ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|90 pages
Fecundism, Ideologies of Reproduction, and Sexual Identity
chapter 1|30 pages
Cultural Production and Reproductive Issues
part II|76 pages
Binary Sexual Categories
chapter 6|20 pages
Mimesis in the Face of Fear
part III|66 pages
Power and Domination