Sacralizing Sexualized Bodies
This essay invites readers to consider that full inclusion in religious spaces – including in religious education – may demand the sacralization of sexualized bodies. Noting that minoritization and sexualization often go hand in hand, such that the bodies of women, queer and trans people, and religi...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2021
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Religious education
Année: 2021, Volume: 116, Numéro: 3, Pages: 217-223 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Société
/ Minorité
/ Sexualisation
/ Identité sexuelle
/ Sacralisation
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociologie des religions AG Vie religieuse NCF Éthique sexuelle RF Pédagogie religieuse |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Gender Identity
B Sexuality B Religion B LGBT |
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| Résumé: | This essay invites readers to consider that full inclusion in religious spaces – including in religious education – may demand the sacralization of sexualized bodies. Noting that minoritization and sexualization often go hand in hand, such that the bodies of women, queer and trans people, and religious and ethnic minorities, among others, are perceived in the societies around them as sexually aberrant, I suggest that these bodies are most often incorporated in religious spaces – when they are incorporated at all – through desexualization. This approach, while widely used, requires minoritized people to leave their flesh behind in order to enter sacred space, effectively forcing them to choose in ways that others need not between embodiment and access to the sacred. I suggest that another, more inclusive and also more pedagogically sound option is to sacralize these sexualized bodies in the same way that majoritarian bodies are already sacralized. |
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| ISSN: | 1547-3201 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religious education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2021.1917855 |