Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender

Donald L. Boisvert is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Concordia University, Canada, where he also teaches in the sexuality studies programme. He is the author of Out on Holy Ground: Meditations on Gay Men’s Spirituality (2000) and Sanctity and Male Desire: A Gay Reading of Saints (2004). He co-edited the two volume reference collection, Queer Religion (2013). Carly Daniel-Hughes is Associate Professor of Religion at Concordia University, Canada where she teaches courses in Christian history as well as gender, sexuality and religion. She is the author of The Salvation of the Flesh in Tertullian of Carthage: Dressing for the Resurrection (2011) and co-editorof Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity (2014).

• PermissionsAcknowledgementsIntroduction to the VolumePart I: Bodies1. Introduction2. Stereotypes, False Images, Terrorism: The White Assault upon Black Sexuality. (Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective) Kelly Brown Douglas3. Sin (Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America) Lynne Gerber4. Blood, Sweat, and Urine: The Scent of Feminine Fluids in Anton Szandor LaVey’s The Satanic Witch.(International Journal for the Study of New Religious Movements)Cimminnee Holt5. Sex (Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism) Janet Gyatso6. The Ultimate Man (A Bull of a Man: Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism) John Powers 7. Mitzvot Built into the Body: Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy and Childbirth. (People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective) Chava Weissler8. Gendering the Ungendered Body: Hermaphrodites in Medieval Islamic Law. (Women in Middle Eastern History) Paula Sanders9. "Mildred, Is It Fun to Be a Cripple?" The Culture of Suffering in Mid-Twentieth Century American Catholicism.” (Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them) Robert Orsi10. Discussion QuestionsPart 2: Desires1. Introduction2. Introduction: Axiomatic (Epistemology of the Closet) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick3. Scientia Sexualis (The History of Sexuality: An Introduction: Volume I) Michel Foucault4. Law and Desire in the Talmud (Eros and the Jews) David Biale5. Tongues Untied: Memoirs of a Pentecostal Boyhood.” (Que(e)rying Religion: A Critical Anthology) Michael Warner6. Sexual Desire, Divine Desire; Or, Queering the Beguines (Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline) Amy Hollywood7. Kukai and the Tradition of Male Love in Japanese Buddhism (Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender) Paul Gordon Schalow8. The Passions of St. Pelagius (The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology) Mark Jordan9. Masturbation, Salvation, and Desire: Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico (Journal of the History of Sexuality) Zeb Tortorici10. Discussion QuestionsPart 3: Performances1. Introduction2. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler3. Witches, Female Priests, and Sacred Manoeuvres: (De)stabilizing Gender and Sexuality in a Cuban Religion of African Origin. (Gender and History) Carolyn Watson4. Mama Lola and the Ezilis: Themes of Mothering and Love in Haitian Vodou (Unspoken Words: Women’s Religious Lives) Karen McCarthy Brown5. (Per)formative Selves: The Production of Gender.” (With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India) Gayatri Reddy 6. Toward a Queer Theology of Flourishing: Transsexual Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Moral Agency (Queer Religion: LGBT Movements and Queering Religion) Jakob Hero7. Intimacy Surveiled: Religion, Sex, and Secular Cunning (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society) Mayanthi Fernando8. Release from Bondage: Sex, Suffering, and Sanctity (The Sacred Encounter: Jewish Perspectives on Sexuality) Daniel Lehrman9. “Nakedness, Non-Violence, and Brahmacharya: Gandhi’s Experiments in Celibate Sexuality.” (Journal of the History of Sexuality) Vinay Lal10. Discussion QuestionsGlossary Index

Bringing together a wide-ranging collection of readings from feminist, gender, and queer studies, this volume is a useful sourcebook for those wishing an initial introduction to historical and contemporary conversations in these key areas within the study of religion.