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This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and the tradition of St. Sebastian in art, Queering the Martyr shows how religious and secular symbols overlapped to produce not one, but two martyr-types: the queer type, typified first by Gustave Flaubert, which is a philosophical foil, and the gay type, popularized by Jean Genet but created by the Belgian Georges Eekhoud, which is a political and pornographic device. Grounded in feminist queer theory and working from a post-psychoanalytical point of view, the argument explores the potential and limits of these two figures, noting especially the persistence of misogyny in religious culture. .
Homosexuality in literature. --- Martyrs in literature. --- French fiction --- History and criticism. --- Comparative literature. --- European literature. --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Queer theory. --- Comparative Literature. --- European Literature. --- Religion and Gender. --- Queer Theory. --- Gender identity --- European literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- History and criticism --- Gender identity—Religious aspects.
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This book examines the operational dynamics of patriarchy that is deeply woven into the Indian cultural fabric and its persistence in spite of women advancing in Human Development Indices. In studying the situation of women of the Catholic Syrian Christian community of Kerala, South India, as a case of analysis, Kochurani Abraham identifies caste consciousness and religious prescriptions of this community as the main factors that intersect with gendered identity construction and succeed in keeping women within its patriarchal confines. While women do engage in negotiating patriarchy through what can be termed simulative, tactical, and ‘agensic’ bargains, this remains a ‘politics of survival’ as it does not challenge the established gender order. In this context, making a shift from ‘politics of survival’ to a ‘politics of subversion’ is imperative for challenging persisting patriarchies.
Feminist theology. --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Sociology. --- Feminist Theology. --- Religion and Gender. --- Gender Studies. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Theology, Feminist --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Gender identity --- Religious aspect. --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Gender identity—Religious aspects.
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“This courageous and interdisciplinary book disturbs and provokes the readers by putting the plight of female child soldiers at the center of theological, ethical, and pastoral inquires. The atrocities inflicted on girls because of war, violence, rape, poverty, and global racism are discussed with cultural sensitivity and astute moral insights. This book issues a clarion call for action, commitment, and solidarity. I highly recommend it.” –Kwok Pui-lan, author of Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (2005) “This unusual volume helps us understand the way that child soldiers who are girls and young women are exploited in war, on one hand, and resist and exercise agency through their soldiering, on the other. These well-written essays will leave the reader both sobered and surprised—and with much to ponder! I commend this book to anyone concerned about the role of children in violence and peace.” –Pamela D. Couture, Jane and Geoffrey Martin Chair in Church and Community, Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto “An excellent showcase of transnational feminist collaborative scholarship! Through multilayered, multidisciplinary and multi-context-based analyses of female child soldering, the book educates readers both the complexity of the issue which requires transnational feminist interrogation and hidden militarization policies of the US, a critical blind spot in many North American feminist theologies. The book advances current feminist theories of power and resistance to an embodied ethical and moral engagement of solidarity.” –Boyung Lee, Professor of Practical Theology, Iliff School of Theology, USA This book examines the phenomenon of female child soldiering from various theological perspectives. It is an interdisciplinary work that brings Christian feminist theologies into dialogue to analyze the complex ethical, geopolitical, social, and theological issues involved in the militarization of girls and women and gender-based violence. With contributions from a range of interdisciplinary and multicultural authors, this book offers reflections and perspectives that coalesce as a comprehensive overview of feminist theological insights into child soldiering. .
Feminist theology. --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Ethics. --- Religion and sociology. --- Feminist Theology. --- Religion and Gender. --- Religion and Society. --- Theology, Feminist --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Gender identity—Religious aspects.
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world religions --- Buddhism --- Christianity --- Gnosticism --- Hinduism --- Islam --- Jains --- Judaism --- new religious movements --- religions in migration --- diaspora --- gender issues --- sexuality --- mysticism --- pilgrimage --- Sikhism --- Zoroastrianism --- Japanese religions --- Chinese religions --- Jainism --- Native North American religions --- native religions --- African religions --- Bahai-Religion --- Baha'ism --- religion and gender
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world religion --- America --- Native Americans --- Christianity --- Protestantism --- African Americans --- Hispanic Americans --- Orthodox Christianity --- Judaism --- Bouddhism --- Islam --- Seventh-Day Adventism --- Jehovah's Witnesses --- Christian Science --- Theosophy --- Church of Scientology --- nature religions --- Baha'i faith --- Latter-Day Saints --- religion and gender --- religion and politics --- religion and society
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The fields of gender and religious studies have often been criticized for neglecting to engage with one another, and this volume responds to this dearth of interaction by placing the fields in an intimate dialogue. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach and drawing on feminist scholarship, the book undertakes theoretical and empirical explorations of relational and co-constitutive encounters of gender and religion. Through varied perspectives, the chapters address three interrelated themes: religion as practice, the relationship between religious practice and religion as prescribed by formal religious institutions, and the feminization of religion in Europe. .
Women and religion --- Feminism --- Religion and women --- Women in religion --- Religion --- Sexism in religion --- Religious aspects. --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Sociology. --- Genetic epistemology. --- Religion and Gender. --- Gender Studies. --- Epistemology. --- Developmental psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- 305 --- 305 Genderstudies. Rol van de sekse. Gender. Personen vanuit interdisciplinair gezichtspunt --- Genderstudies. Rol van de sekse. Gender. Personen vanuit interdisciplinair gezichtspunt --- Gender identity—Religious aspects. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Gender identity
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This groundbreaking reference offers mental health professionals a rigorous, nuanced guide to working with abuse survivors with disabilities in religious communities. Expert contributors unravel complex intersections of disability, religion, and identity in the context of gender violence (including spotlights on racial, gender, and sexual minorities, Deaf persons, and men), and offer survivor-centered best practices for intervention. Chapters explore how responses from clergy and other religious figures may sometimes prevent survivors from seeking help, and how faith leaders can help to empower survivors. The concepts and research presented here support multiple purposes, from removing barriers to survivor services to working with religious communities to be more inclusive and transparent. Among the topics featured: From barriers to belonging for people with disabilities: Promising pathways toward inclusive ministry. Empowering women with intellectual disabilities to resist abuse in interpersonal relationships. Race, culture, and abuse of persons with disabilities. Ableist shame and disruptive bodies: Survivorship at the intersection of queer, trans, and disabled existence. From the narratives of survivors with disabilities: Strengths and gaps between faith-based communities and domestic violence shelters. Religion, Disability, and Interpersonal Violence brings transformative insights to psychologists, social workers, and mental health professionals across disciplines providing guidance within religious and disabled communities in their clinical practice. It also provides valuable background for researchers seeking to examine the interface between religious culture and the abuse of persons with disabilities.
Intellectual disability. --- Family violence. --- Domestic violence --- Household violence --- Interparental violence --- Intrafamily violence --- Violence --- Idiocy --- Intellectual disabilities --- Mental deficiency --- Mental retardation --- Developmental disabilities --- Psychology, Pathological --- People with mental disabilities --- Social work. --- Psychology, clinical. --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Social Work. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Religion and Gender. --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services --- Clinical psychology. --- Gender identity—Religious aspects. --- Psychiatry --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Gender identity --- Religious aspects.
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This book explores the social life of Muslim women and Christian minorities amid Islamic and Christian movements in urban Java, Indonesia. Drawing on anthropological perspectives and 14 months of participant observation between 2009 and 2013 in the multi-religious Javanese city of Salatiga, this ethnography examines the interrelations between Islamic piety, Christian identity, and gendered sociability in a time of multiple religious revivals. The novel encounters between multiple forms of piety and customary sociality among “moderate” Muslims, puritan Salafists, born-again Pentecostals, Protestants, and Catholics require citizens to renegotiate various social interactions. En-Chieh Chao argues that piety has become a complex phenomenon entangled with gendered sociality and religious others, rather than a preordained outcome stemming from a closed religious tradition.
Islam --- Christians --- Muslims --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Ethnology. --- Ethnography. --- Religion and sociology. --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Islam. --- Social Anthropology. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Religion and Society. --- Religion and Gender. --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Gender identity—Religious aspects.
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This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the intertwining impact of violent trauma, culture, and power through case studies of two ministries serving in different demographic contexts within the United States. Mass shootings continue to rise in the United States, including in religious and school contexts, and the U.S. also is ground zero for the now international Black Lives Matter movement. The author shows how all forms of violent trauma impact more than individuals –devastating communal relationships and practices of religious or spiritual meaning-making in the aftermath, and assesses how these impacts differ according to lived experiences with culture and power. Looking at the two ministries, an urban grassroots lay ministry organization that serves surviving family members in the aftermath of homicide, and a denominational ministry that served a church in the aftermath of a political and religiously motivated shooting, the author develops trauma-specific interdisciplinary tools for lived religion studies.
Religion and sociology. --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Ethnology. --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Psychology and religion. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Social Anthropology. --- Religion and Gender. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Religion and Psychology. --- Religion and psychology --- Religion --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Gender identity—Religious aspects. --- Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects
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This book investigates the Ancient Stoic thinkers’ views on gender and sexuality. A detailed scrutiny of metaphysics, ethics and political philosophy reveals that the Stoic philosophers held an exceptionally equal view of men and women’s rational capacities. In its own time, Stoicism was frequently called ‘ the manly school’ of philosophy, but this volume shows that the Stoics would have also transformed many traditional notions of masculinity. Malin Grahn-Wilder compares the earlier philosophies of Plato and Aristotle to show that the Stoic position often stands out within Ancient philosophy as an exceptionally bold defense of women’s possibilities to achieve the highest form of wisdom and happiness. The work argues that the Stoic metaphysical notion of human being is based on strikingly egalitarian premises, and opens new perspectives to Stoic philosophy on the whole.
Gender identity --- Religious aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Feminist theory. --- Sociology. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Gender expression. --- Gender identity. --- Feminism. --- Gender Studies. --- Religion and Gender. --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Expression, Gender --- Sex role --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Psychological aspects --- Philosophy --- Gender identity-Religious aspect. --- Gender identity—Religious aspects.