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Globalized religion and sexual identity : contexts, contestations, voices / edited by Heather Shipley.

Contributor(s): Shipley, Heather [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: International studies in religion and society: 22.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xiv, 324 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004269569 (hardback : alk. paper); 9004269568 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Gender identity -- Religious aspects | Sex role -- Religious aspects | Globalization -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 201/.7 LOC classification: BL65.S4 | G53 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Heather Shipley -- The rise of anti-gay religious right activism in the U.S.: a review of major sociological theories / Rebecca Barrett-Fox -- Desiring justice, acting Jnana: transforming the transsexual legal fantasy from the perspectives of Žižekian and Mahayana Buddhist philosophies / Chiu Man-chung -- Talking sexuality: religious identity construction in rural Canada / Kate Power -- Only skin deep: revising the secular narrative through circumcision / Amélie Barras and Dia Dabby -- Obama's neo-New Deal: religion, secularism, and sex in political debates now / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini -- Issues of gender and sexuality in a Brazilian technical school: displacements and exclusion processes / Ana Cristina Leal Moreira Lima, Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira and Marcia Bastos de Sá -- A Weberian-Troeltschian examination of the relationship between religious/spiritual identities and human sexuality: the case of the proposed Anglican Communion covenant / Riva Lieflander -- Religion and homosexuality in contemporary China: debates, identity, and voices / Shun-Hing Chan and Ping Huang -- Negotiating sexual rights in the U.K.: Christian constituencies and contested moralities / Stephen Hunt -- Charismatic Protestantism, gender and sexuality in Brazil / Nina Rosas and Cristina Maria de Castro -- English evangelicals, equality and the city / Anna Strhan -- 'They go burn in hell!': exploring how African MSM negotiate religion and sexuality in Canada / Nesochi Chinwuba -- Values and practices: how are youth in Canada integrating religion and sexuality in their daily lives? / Heather Shipley and Pamela Dickey Young -- Mapping queer, mapping me: visualizing queer religious identity / Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon -- Heather Shipley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction (contexts, contestations and voices) / Heather Shipley -- The rise of anti-gay religious right activism in the U.S.: a review of major sociological theories / Rebecca Barrett-Fox -- Desiring justice, acting Jnana: transforming the transsexual legal fantasy from the perspectives of Žižekian and Mahayana Buddhist philosophies / Chiu Man-chung -- Talking sexuality: religious identity construction in rural Canada / Kate Power -- Only skin deep: revising the secular narrative through circumcision / Amélie Barras and Dia Dabby -- Obama's neo-New Deal: religion, secularism, and sex in political debates now / Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini -- Issues of gender and sexuality in a Brazilian technical school: displacements and exclusion processes / Ana Cristina Leal Moreira Lima, Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira and Marcia Bastos de Sá -- A Weberian-Troeltschian examination of the relationship between religious/spiritual identities and human sexuality: the case of the proposed Anglican Communion covenant / Riva Lieflander -- Religion and homosexuality in contemporary China: debates, identity, and voices / Shun-Hing Chan and Ping Huang -- Negotiating sexual rights in the U.K.: Christian constituencies and contested moralities / Stephen Hunt -- Charismatic Protestantism, gender and sexuality in Brazil / Nina Rosas and Cristina Maria de Castro -- English evangelicals, equality and the city / Anna Strhan -- 'They go burn in hell!': exploring how African MSM negotiate religion and sexuality in Canada / Nesochi Chinwuba -- Values and practices: how are youth in Canada integrating religion and sexuality in their daily lives? / Heather Shipley and Pamela Dickey Young -- Mapping queer, mapping me: visualizing queer religious identity / Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon -- Conclusion / Heather Shipley.

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