Religion, Gender and Sexuality

This book offers a new insight on the intersection between Islam and feminism and the impact it has on Muslim women’s self-narratives of equality from its early encounter during colonialism to its emergence in the 1990s in Indonesia. ..

Most feminists have turned away from the Christian churches, regarding both Catholicism and the protestant denominations as bastions of sexism and patriarchal oppression. However, Christian feminists committed to improving the position of Christian women and to the spiritual renewal of their respect..

The Stonewall Inn was the location of a rebellion that ultimately led to the gay liberation movement. This book offers a fresh perspective on the role of gay bars in 1950s America as sacred space for the community...

The book explores the twentieth-century novel from the perspective that it is more concerned with theological debate than we might like to think. It reads five twentieth-century writers who have written the equivalent of sermons...

Provides a much-needed overview of the state of scholarship on Christian theological reflection on sexuality. An international set of contributors offer a range of perspectives, including work from beyond the traditional boundaries of theological scholarship. This book will be an asset to religion a..

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Elsie Chamberlain is the first full biography and a critical appreciation using original sources from the churches and the BBC...

This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_..

This book contributes to the wider scholarship on queer subjects by drawing on actual lived experiences of self-identifying gay and bisexual men in Malaysia. It discusses what we can learn from the realities of their lives that intersect with their religious, spiritual, theological or humanistic val..

This book explores the role that gender plays when religion, media use and values in contemporary society interact. It draws together some of the best and most up-to-date scholarship on media and religion from a gender perspective, providing a useful platform for teaching and research...

This book explores the role that gender plays when religion, media use and values in contemporary society interact. It draws together some of the best and most up-to-date scholarship on media and religion from a gender perspective, providing a useful platform for teaching and research...

The history of Islam and the changing role-performance of Muslim women, given the various interpretations of the belief system of Islam, are described. It is the contention of the authors that it is these various interpretations which have given rise to the conflict between the ideal and contextual ..