How does religion relate to bodies and sexualities? Many people would answer, simply, "through repression," but the relationship is much more complicated than t

God and the Body addresses the challenges to traditional Christianity by gay and lesbian Christians and their critics within the church. This controversial book

Taking the notion of embodiment as a starting point, this volume maps the interconnecting relationships between religion, gender and sexuality. The chapters hig

Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opp

Exploring the intersection between religion, gender and sexuality within the context of everyday life, this volume examines contested identities, experiences, b