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Religion, gender, and sexuality in everyday life / by Peter Nynäs and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip.

Contributor(s): Nynäs, Peter | Yip, Andrew K. T, 1963-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xii, 173 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781409445838 (alk. paper); 1409445836 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Sex -- Religious aspects | Sex role -- Religious aspects | Sexual orientation | Religion and culture -- Case studies | Sex role -- Case studies | Sex -- Case studiesDDC classification: 200.81 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Re-framing the intersection between religion, gender and sexuality in everyday life / Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip and Peter Nynäs -- The resistance from an alterspace : Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the dominant sexual and gender norms / Vanja Hamzić -- Spirituality, activism, and the "postsecular" in the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence / Melissa M. Wilcox -- Hindu, Muslim and Sikh young adults : gendered practices in the negotiation of sexuality and relationship / Sarah-Jane Page and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip -- Coping with religious and cultural homophobia : emotion and narratives of identity threat among British Muslim gay men / Rusi Jaspal -- Sexualities in the migration context : religious influences on views on abortion and homosexuality / Bernadetta Siara -- Queering conversion : exploring new theoretical pathways to understand religious conversion in a Western context / Wim Peumans and Christiane Stallaert -- Body and sexuality constructs among youth of the ultra-orthodox Jewish community / Sara Zalcberg and Sima Zalcberg -- When God is not so good : corporate religion contra new social movements / Kenneth Houston.

Selections originally presented at the international conference "The politics of living religion/spirituality and gender/sexuality in everyday context" held in London 24-25 May 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Re-framing the intersection between religion, gender and sexuality in everyday life / Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip and Peter Nynäs -- The resistance from an alterspace : Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the dominant sexual and gender norms / Vanja Hamzić -- Spirituality, activism, and the "postsecular" in the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence / Melissa M. Wilcox -- Hindu, Muslim and Sikh young adults : gendered practices in the negotiation of sexuality and relationship / Sarah-Jane Page and Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip -- Coping with religious and cultural homophobia : emotion and narratives of identity threat among British Muslim gay men / Rusi Jaspal -- Sexualities in the migration context : religious influences on views on abortion and homosexuality / Bernadetta Siara -- Queering conversion : exploring new theoretical pathways to understand religious conversion in a Western context / Wim Peumans and Christiane Stallaert -- Body and sexuality constructs among youth of the ultra-orthodox Jewish community / Sara Zalcberg and Sima Zalcberg -- When God is not so good : corporate religion contra new social movements / Kenneth Houston.

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