Religion and Sexuality in Cross-cultural PerspectiveStephen Ellingson, Martha Christian Green Psychology Press, 2002 - 263 pages 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 des matières
Part IFecundism Ideologies of Reproduction and Sexual Identity | 19 |
Sex Rhetoric and Ontology | 51 |
The Mythology of the Masquerading | 83 |
Beyond Binary Categories | 111 |
The Hijras | 137 |
Mimesis in the Face of Fear | 165 |
Tacit Containment | 187 |
Millennial Capitalism Occult Economies | 223 |
Contributors | 251 |
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