Sexuality and the World's Religions
Title | Sexuality and the World's Religions PDF eBook |
Author | David Wayne Machacek |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 453 |
Release | 2003-08-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1851095322 |
Exploring one of the most controversial topics in contemporary theology, this scholarly volume reveals what the world's great faiths—East and West—preach about sexuality, with a special emphasis on American religion. What do the world's most important religious texts have to say about one of humanity's favorite activities? Editors David W. Machacek and Melissa M. Wilcox have brought together top scholars in the field of religious studies to ask and answer these critical questions. Carefully researched, elegantly written, and respectfully presented, Sexuality and the World's Religions explores the intersection of the spiritual and the carnal in Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and African and Native American spiritual traditions. A separate section explores critical religious and sexual topics in American society, including the role of spirituality in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities; the role of sex in the modern witchcraft community; and the ever thorny problem of religion and sexual liberty. Reconciling sexuality and spirituality in every human soul is one of religion's most important tasks. Students and other readers will find this timely and comprehensive volume of interest in exploring these issues.
Sexuality and the World's Religions
Title | Sexuality and the World's Religions PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Machacek |
Publisher | ABC-CLIO |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2003-08-13 |
Genre | Psychology |
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Looks at issues concerning sexuality and religion in nine of the world's religions, including Daoism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Catholicism, covering such topics as sexual orientation, reproductive rights, and sexual rituals.
Sexual Morality in the World's Religions
Title | Sexual Morality in the World's Religions PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Parrinder |
Publisher | ONEWorld Publications |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
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A unique exploration of sex and religion, covering a wide range of issues from marriage and celibacy, passion and love, to veiling, mystical union, and symbolism.
Sacred Sexuality
Title | Sacred Sexuality PDF eBook |
Author | Georg Feuerstein |
Publisher | Tarcher |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Psychology |
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Based on a vast diversity of religious and spiritual traditions, this comprehensive exploration of sexuality's spiritual dimensions uncovers deeply hidden messages about sexuality and shows how to incorporate the concepts of Hinduism, Christianity, Judasim, and other philosophies into our lives. Illustrated.
Love, Sex and Gender in the World Religions
Title | Love, Sex and Gender in the World Religions PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy M. Martin |
Publisher | Library of Global Ethics & Rel |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2000-08 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
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This new volume offers enlightening new perspectives on the roles of love, sex, and gender in different faiths and covers issues from gender politics to religious ecstasy.
Queer Women and Religious Individualism
Title | Queer Women and Religious Individualism PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa M. Wilcox |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2009-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0253221161 |
Melissa M. Wilcox explores the complex spiritual lives of queer women in the Los Angeles area. She takes the reader on a tour of a colorful array of religious and secular groups that serve as spiritual resources for these women—from the well-known Metropolitan Community Churches to Wiccan covens, from the Gay and Lesbian Sierrans to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Arguing that these women's stories are exemplary cases of postmodern patterns of religious identity, belief, and practice, Wilcox offers a nuanced analysis of contemporary Western spirituality and selfhood, and a detailed exploration of the history of queer religious organizing in Los Angeles. Queer Women and Religious Individualism is important reading for scholars in religious studies, sociology, women's studies, and LGBT studies.
Sex in the World's Religions
Title | Sex in the World's Religions PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Parrinder |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Religions |
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