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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Green, M. Christian (Martha Christian), 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxfordshire, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I/Fecundism, Ideologies of Reproduction, and Sexual Identity; 1 Cultural Production and Reproductive Issue The Significance of the Charismatic Movement in Nigeria; 2 Sex, Rhetoric, and Ontology Fecundism as an Ethical Problem; 3 The Mythology of the Masquerading Post-Menopausal Woman; Part II/Binary Sexual Categories; 4 Beyond Binary Categories Mesoamerican Religious Sexuality; 5 The Hijras An Alternative Gender in Indian Culture.
  • 6 Mimesis in the Face of Fear Femme Queens, Butch Queens, and Gender Play in the Houses of Greater NewarkPart Ill/Power and Domination; 7 Tacit Containment Social Value, Embodiment, and Gender Practice in Northern Sudan; 8 Millennial Capitalism, Occult Economies, and the Crisis of Reproduction in South Africa Further Notes from the Postcolony; Contributors; Index.