Religion and Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective

著者名：Ellingson, Stephen (EDT)/Green, M. Christian (EDT)

Routledge（2014/03/18発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780415941280
• eISBN：9781135375959
• NDC分類：199

Description

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

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