Description
This book examines key themes and concepts pertaining to religious and sexual identities and expressions, mapping theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions. It explores the ways in which debates around sexuality and religion have been framed, and what research is still needed to expand the field as it develops. Through the deployment of contemporary research, including data from the authors’ own projects, Religion and Sexualities offers an encompassing account of the sociology of sexuality and religion, considering theoretical and methodological lenses, queer experiences, and how sexuality is gendered in religious contexts. This comprehensive text will act as an essential accompaniment to scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities, whether they have a general interest in the field or are embarking on their own research in this area.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Situating Sexualities and Religion: Place, Space and the Body
2. Understanding Sexualities and Religion through Censure and Control
3. Identity, Sexualities and Religion
4. Methodological Insights: Researching Religion and Sexualities
5. Conceptualising the ‘Normative’: The Straight Time Model
6. Navigating the ‘Normative’: Constituting Safe and Unsafe Space
7. Gendering Sexuality and Religion
8. Gendered Bodies: Reproductive and Sexual Control
9. Institutional Contexts: Religion and State Processes
Conclusion: Managing Religion and Sexualities
