Rape Culture and Religious Studies explores how teachers and scholars in religion should respond to sexual violence and rape culture in classrooms, curriculums, and the community. The volume offers critical reflections and practical teaching strategies from leading experts working in a variety of institutional contexts and religious traditions.
Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition
Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, this work reassesses the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought.
Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition
Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of "history and tradition" ......
This collection of eleven new essays presents fresh, illuminating research by scholars who comparatively examine material, visual, and literary evidence to recover women's religious experiences, perspectives, and activities in antiquity-perspectives often missing or underrepre...
By revealing ambiguities in the interpretation of mut'a, this work challenges accepted sexual ethics in Islamic thought-as presented by most classical and many modern Muslim scholars-and thus opens up space to theorize Islamic sexual ethics anew and contribute to this crucial conversation from the perspective of Muslim feminism.
Women have shaped Judaism and other religions through their leadership in many different ways. This volume analyzes the historical context, current developments, and personal experiences of women in religious leadership that have redefined not just the role of religion, but also the way women understand themselves.
This assemblage of feminist theologies is written from different cultures, geographies and discourses and brought together around themes as specific and wide-ranging as immigration detention, hate crime, discrimination, rites of marriage and partnership, and artistic and religious imagination.
This volume challenges longstanding interpretative practices in reading the Qur'an and invites readers to discover afresh the riches and gender-egalitarian directness of the sacred text itself. The work retrieves for readers and scholars an oft-neglected tradition of encounter with Islam's scripture and teaching tradition.
In this book, Ofelia Miriam Ortega describes the social, economic, and political realities in Cuba, the Caribbean and Latin America as the contexts of Cuban feminist theology.
