Religion and sexuality in cross-cultural perspective /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Oxfordshire, England ; New York, New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (271 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781135375881 1135375887 9781135375959 113537595X 9780203954003 0203954009 |