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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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Publié: |
Oxfordshire, England New York, New York
Routledge
2013
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| Dans: | Année: 2013 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Religion
/ Sexualité
B Religion / Comportement sexuel / Rôle de genre |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Electronic books
Electronic books
B RELIGION ; Comparative Religion B Sex Religious aspects B Recueil d'articles |
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
Print version: Religion and sexuality in cross-cultural perspective: |
| Résumé: | 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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| Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record |
| ISBN: | 1135375887 |