Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Sexuality & Gender Studies

This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the context of contemporary migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canadas largest black population, a significant portion of which comprises Caribbean migrants and their descendants.

This book shows how the development of the Spiritual Baptist religion in Canada has been shaped by the immigration experiences of church members, the large majority of whom are women, and it examines the ways in which religious experiences have mediated the...

"Sexuality Is Not in Creation" takes the reader through the chapters of human life, beginning with creation and fall, to show how human sin brought sexuality, with all of its many troubles, into the world God had made for Adam and Eve, the first people. Author Amoge Nwaeze describes clearly the ways that the brokenness both of human society and of individual relationships follows from the act of disobedience committed by that first couple.

Drawing upon the witness of numerous passages from the Scriptures, "Sexuality Is Not in Creation" uncovers the destructiveness of sin and its...

How does your gender and sexual identity define you? Find out in this guide for identity fluidity in the 21st century. Here you will discover: 1) How gender and sexual identities are created and why; 2) How gender and sexual identities change throughout one lifetime or over multiple lifetimes; 3) Theories on why a soul chooses its gender and sexual identity when incarnating; 4) Introduction of the Energy Body; 5) The history and mythology of Two Spirit and Third Gender cultures around the world; 6) The real story of a "boy named Sue" the author's life as a Four Spirit. In Soul Sex, the...

As a psychoanalyst and author, Lou Andreas-Salome traverses the mystery of sexuality in much of her work. This book, comprised of two texts originally written for adolescents, uniquely explores sexual education and the collision of sexuality and religion across the lifespan.

The first piece, "Three Letters to a Young Boy" (1917), is a psychoanalytic fairy tale. The letters offer an interesting version of the evolution of sexual knowledge from childhood through adolescence. The second piece, "The Devil & His Grandmother" (1922), merges sexuality with religion, encapsulating three ages...