Sexuality, Religion and the Sacred: Bisexual, Pansexual and Polysexual Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138023994 / Miękka / 2014 / 228 str.

Hutchins, Loraine

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Sexuality, Religion and the Sacred is a thoughtful collection of bisexual, polysexual and pansexual scholarship on religion and spirituality. It examines how religious and spiritual traditions address sexuality, whilst also exploring the ways in which bisexually-, polysexually-, and pansexually-active people embrace religious and spiritual practice. The volume offers a comprehensive analysis of these prevalent themes by focusing on five main areas of discussion: Christian and Unitarian Discourses; Indigenous and Decolonizing Spiritual Discourses; Feminist Spiritual Discourses; Buddhist Discourses; and Neo/Pagan Discourses. Sexuality, Religion and the Sacred offers an accessible yet scholarly treatment of these topics through a collection of critical essays by academics of theology, humanities, cultural studies and social sciences, as well as sexology professionals and clergy from various faith and spiritual traditions. It gives readers an insight into the intersection of sexualities and spiritualities, and attempts to disrupt this very dichotomy through its careful consideration of a wide variety of discourses.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality.

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Foreword  Introduction: Our Hearts Hold These Intimate Connections  Part I: Christian and Unitarian Discourses  1. Not Even on the Page: Freeing God from Heterocentrism  2. Re-enforcing Binaries, Downgrading Passions: Bisexual Invisibility in Mainstream Queer Christian Theology  3. Bi Christian Unitarian: A Theology of Transgression  4. Developing a Bisexual Adult Religious Education Curriculum  Part II: Indigenous and Decolonizing Spiritual Discourses  5. Living with Dual Spirits: Spirituality, Sexuality, and Healing in African Diaspora  6. Bodeme in Harlem: An African Diasporic Autoethnography  7. Colonial Legacies, Decolonized Spirits: Balboa, Ugandan Martyrs, and AIDS Solidarity Today  8. Make It Funky Now: The Birth of Funk Studies – A Review of Conjuring Black Funk: Notes on Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality, Volume 1 by Herukhuti  Part III: Feminist Spiritual Discourses  9. Reading Althaus-Reid: As a Bi FeministTheo/Methodological Resource  10. Bisexual Women as Emblematic Sexual Healers and the Problematics of the Embodied Sexual Whore  11. Bi bell: Spirituality and the Sexual Intellectual  12. Non-Monogamous Bisexuality as a Practice of Spiritual Freedom in The Color Purple  Part IV: Buddhist Discourses  13. The Third Precept: Towards a Buddhist Ethics of Bisexuality  14. Bi, Buddhist, Activist: Refusing Intolerance, But Not Refusing Each Other  Part V: Neo/Pagan Discourses  15. The Sacredness of Pleasure  16. "All Cool Women Should Be Bisexual:" Female Bisexual Identity in an American NeoPagan Community  17. Review of Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio