Judaism and Islam

Stephen Hunt is Reader in Sociology at the University of the West of England, UK

• Contents: Introduction; Judaism: Part I Judaism and Sexuality: Exploring Historical Viewpoints: Are there any Jews in 'the history of sexuality'?, Daniel Boyarin; The Song of Songs and the Garden of Eden, Francis Landy; The One: God's unity and genderless divinity in Judaism, Hagar Lahav; Gender and sexuality in the Garden of Eden, Jerome Gellman; The hole in the sheet and other myths about sexuality and Judaism, David S. Ribner and Peggy J. Kleinplatz. Part II Judaism and Sexuality: the Traditional-Modernist Divide: Lived regulations, systemic attributions: menstrual separation and ritual immersion in the experience of Orthodox Jewish women, Tova Hartman and Naomi Marmon; Observance of the laws of family purity in modern-orthodox Judaism, Mark A. Guterman; Jewish women and sexuality, Judi Keshet-Orr; Of pearls and fish: an analysis of Jewish legal texts on sexuality and their significance for contemporary American Jewish movements, Rachel Sara Rosenthal; Homosexuality and the Orthodox Jewish community, Marc Angel, Hillel Goldberg and Pinchas Stolper. Islam: Part III Islam and Sexuality in Historical Context: She's upright: sexuality and obscenity in Islam, A.E. Souaiaia; Gender boundaries and sexual categories in the Arab world, As'ad AbuKhalil; The Sharia, Islamic family laws and international human rights law: examining the theory and practice of polygamy and talaq, Javaid Rehman; Islamic female sexuality and gender in modern feminist interpretation, Elizabeth Shlala Leo; Migration challenges views on sexuality, Nader Ahmadi. Part IV Islam and Sexuality in Global Perspective: 'He is your garment and you are his ...': religious precepts, interpretations, and power relations in marital sexuality among Javanese Muslim women, Lily Zakiyah Munir; Sexuality in contemporary Arab society, Abdessamad Dialmy; Zina and the moral regulation of Pakistani women, Shahnaz Khan; Sexuality and the moral 'construction' of women in an Islamic society, Janet L. Bauer; Negotiating spa

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