Ellingson / Green Religion and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-37595-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellingson, Stephen

Green, M. Christian

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Ellingson is assistant professor of sociology of religion and Director of the Lilly Program on Congregational Ministry at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. He is co-author of Organizational Ethics in Health Care. M. Christian Green, formerly of the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics, is a researcher at the Religion, Culture, and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School.