Full Description
Embracing Faith and Desire investigates the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religion from an anthropological lens. Taking women's, non-binary, and queer religious life-worlds in Muslim and Christian contexts as a cross-cutting research theme, the book brings together scholars from different disciplines and regional contexts who are interested in the interconnectedness of gender dynamics, queerness, and religious principles.
The explosive growth of contesting religions, especially in a Christian-Muslim context, represents a distinctively religious-political dynamic within globalization. It disrupts the global world order, influences hegemonic negotiations within and across nation-states, and shapes self-imaginations and practices of social actors. Consequently, it carries far-reaching political, religious, economic, and social ramifications. Embracing Faith and Desire explores these ramifications on various levels. The volume thereby contributes to debates on intersectionality, queer, and religious approaches alike by showcasing how the scopes and scales of action and the constructive shaping of self-images, social relations, and political actions of people are fundamentally dependent upon religious, gendered, and sexualized backgrounds.
Embedding the contributions in the anthropology of religion, anthropology of gender, and queer anthropology, the book reconfigures our understanding of lived religion through the lens of gendered and queered imaginations, practices, and ideologies.
Contents
Foreword Amina Wadud
Introducing the field
Embracing Faith and Desire. Queer and Feminist Engagements with Islam and Christianity as Lived Religions: An Introduction Ferdiansyah Thajib and Viola Thimm
Gender and Islam in moving contexts
1. Gendered Belonging in a Muslim Context: The Case of Bangladeshi Female Migrants in Qatar Sumiya Fatima Mahmud 2. The Feminist Politics of Muslim Women in the Shaheen Bagh Protests: Reimagining Identity, Secularism, and Citizenship in India Aishani Khurana 3. "It's Not About Sex, It's About Fıtrat": Exploring Turkey's politics of gender through a religious concept Karolin Iren Meri Tuncel
Queering Muslim life-worlds
4. LT+ negotiations at the intersection of Islamic faith and desire in Indonesia Kristina Schneider 5. Betwixt Prayers and Dances: An Autoethnography on Agency, Performativity, and Disoriented Spaces Among Gay Syrian Muslims in Berlin Luay Ranko 6. Queering pilgrimage in Germany: Spiritual mobility as alternative routes to Mecca Viola Thimm
Perspectives from LGBTQIA+ in Christian contexts
7. "One single flock with diversity": Community building and diversity promotion in Spanish LGBTQ+ Christian groups José Barrera-Blanco 8. "Where the Hell is Everyone Else?" - Exploring the In/visibility of Religious Queers in Sweden Elin Lundell 9. Moral transformations of the sexual female body post-Evangelicalism: How emotions and experimentation shape religious change Rebecca Laura Anne Davis
Concluding remarks
Afterword Melissa M. Wilcox
Index
