Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender and Sexuality

Sîan Hawthorne is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Religion and Politics at SOAS, University of London, UK.Dawn Llewellyn is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender at the University of Chester, UK.Sonya Sharma is Associate Professor of Sociology at University College London, UK.

In this superbly edited collection, critical attention is given to how racist and colonialist politics have shaped the study of religion, gender, and sexuality. The reflexivity and reciprocity between the editors exemplifies how feminist collegiality inspires transformative knowledge, showcased in the remarkably insightful contributions that is sure to shift the field.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsWriting Ourselves In: Feminist Reflexivity and Academic Friendship, Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester, UK), Sîan Melvill Hawthorne (SOAS, UK) and Sonya Sharma (University College London, UK)Loosening Religion, Gender, and Sexuality: An Introduction, Sîan Melvill Hawthorne (SOAS, UK), Sonya Sharma (University College London, UK) and Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester, UK) FORCES AND FUTURES1. Farming as Spiritual Praxis, Himanee Gupta (SUNY Empire State College, USA)2. Sikh Iconotexts for Global Society, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, (Colby College, USA)3. Race, Gender, and Religion: A Critical Analysis of Confession’s Complicity in “Hegemonic Male Whiteness”, Michael J. Oliver (Drew University, USA)4. Mapping Organized Clerical Child Sexual Abuse Networks: Innovative Approaches, Kathleen McPhillips (University of Newcastle, Australia), Jodi Death (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Kelly Richards (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), and Jane Fitzgerald (University of Newcastle, Australia) 5. Artificial Eves? Re(-)presentations of Gender in Robots and AI, Scott Midson (University of Manchester, UK)ACTIVISMS AND LABOURS6. From A Theology of Transgression to a Theology of Tolerance, Orit Avishai (Fordham University, USA)7.“Fathers and mothers will disappear; Grandpa and grandma will be gone”: The Mediatisation of the Faith-based Anti-Gender Movement in Taiwan, Pei-Ru Liao (National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)8. Addiction Recovery at the Intersections of Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, Liam Metcalf-White (University of Chester, UK) and Wendy Dossett (University of Chester, UK) 9. “Sister, you need to have guts!”: Catholic Nuns’ Care Work and Emotional Labor in Oral History (Italy 1945–1965), Flora Derounian (University of Sussex, UK)Chapter 10: Gendering Religious Labor and Buddhist Temple Economies in Contemporary Japan, Paulina Kolata (Lund University, Sweden)AGENCIES AND PRACTICES11. Cultivating a Desire of One’s Own: Religious Change and Sexuality among “Judaizing Evangelical” Women in Brazil, Manoela Carpenedo (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)12. Play and Pray: The Performance of Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Contemporary Sport, Kathrine van den Bogert (Utrecht University School of Governance, The Netherlands)13. “Whiteness” in the Red Tent: Exploring Gender and Race in Women’s Circles in the UK, Madeleine Castro (Leeds Beckett University, UK)14. Performing Muslimness: Proximity and Visibility in the Italian Space, Letteria G. Fassari (Sapienza University, Italy) and Gioia Pompili (Independent Scholar, Italy)RELATIONSHIPS AND INSTITUTIONS15. Discourses of Gender, Religion and National Security in the Legal Mediation of Citizenship: A Case Study from India, Anukriti Dixit (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Samar (Independent Scholar)16. Performing the Maternal Role in a Foreign Land: Migrant Mothering as Spiritual Practice, Ma. Adeinev M. Reyes-Espiritu (KU Leuven, Belgium)17. Motherhood, Religion and Feminism: Colonial Encounters, Intersectional Identities, Jessica A. Albrecht (University of Heidelberg, Germany)18. Silenced and Overemphasized: Positionings of LGBTQ+ People in Orthodox Christian communities in the US, Romania, and Finland, Talvikki Ahonen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Pekka Metso (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) , Grant S. White (Sankt Ignatios College, Stockholm) and Tuukka Tuomasjukka (Finland)19. Self-Work as a Moral Project: Gender, Faith, and Therapeutic Authority in Marriage Preparation and Reentry Programs, Courtney Ann Irby (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA) and Cesraéa Rumpf (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)20. Procreation, Legitimated Adultery and Ancestorship: Exploring Issues of Systemic Patriarchy in African Cultures, Elvis Imafidon (SOAS University of London, UK)TEXTS AND OBJECTS 21. Indigenous Transgender Visual Sovereignty: From Little Big Man (1970) to Drunktown’s Finest (2014), Gabriel S. Estrada (California State University Long Beach, USA)22. “Black and Beautiful”: Womanist Theology, Love-Politics, and the Song of Songs, Duc Dau (The University of Western Australia, Australia)23. Women’s Intimate Bodywork and Spirituality: Sexual-Spiritual Objects of Self-Pleasure and Material Religion, Florence Pasche-Guignard (Université Laval, Canada)24. Re-Gendering Sutartines: Women’s Disempowerment, Interpretation, and the Performance of Lithuanian Pagan Music, Egle Aleknaite (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)25. Decolonizing Arabo-Islamic Feminist Scholarship: A Theoretical Exploration of the Work of Olfa Youssef, Lana Sirri (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Index