Embodying Religion Gender and Sexuality

<p>Taking the notion of embodiment as a starting point this volume maps the interconnecting relationships between religion gender and sexuality. </p><p>The chapters highlight how the body – its location the narratives that surround it its movement and negotiations – is central to understanding these multifaceted relationships. The contributors recognise the ways in which gender and sexuality are crucial to how we embody religion and encourage a more complex and nuanced understanding of embodied religion. The material is organised according to three central themes: (1) the relationship between the religious and the secular; (2) power regulation and resistance; and (3) the symbolism of gendered bodies. </p><p>Cutting across a range of disciplinary perspectives <i>Embodying Religion Gender and Sexuality </i>will be relevant to students of sociology anthropology gender and sexuality studies theology and religious studies.</p>