The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Bodies ................11 Stereotypes, False images, terrorism: The white assault upon black sexuality (Sexuality and the black church: A womanist perspective ) ...........16 Sin (Seeking the Straight and narrow: Weight loss and sexual reorientation in Evangelical America )...........28 Blood, Sweat, and Urine: The Scent of Feminine Fluids in Anton Szandor La Vey`s The Satanic witch(International Journal for the study of New Religious Movements )......................38 Sex (Critical terms for the study of Buddhism )..................49 The ultimate Man (A bull of a Man : Images of Masculinity, Sex, and the Body in Indian Buddhism )...........................58 Mizvot built into the body : Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy and Childbirth(People of the body: Jews and judaism from an Embodied perspective )....67 Gendering the ungendered body: Hermaphrodites in Medieval islamic Law .............77 Mildred is it fun to be a Cripple? The culture of Suffering in Mid-Twentieth century American Catholicism . (Between Heaven and earth: The religious worlds people make and the Scholars who study Them)................87 2. Desire ...............101 Axiomatic ............106 Scientia sexualis...................111 Law and desire in the talmud....................120 Tongues united : Memoirs of a Pentecostal Boyhood .........128 Sexual Desire, Divine desire or Queering the Beguines .............137 Kukai and the Tradition of Male love in Japanese Buddhism ..................146 The passion of st. Pelagius .........159 Masturbation, Salvation, and Desire: Connecting sexuality and religiosity in colonial Mexico .............168 3. Performance .....179 Gender trouble : Feminism and the Subversion of Identity .........184 Witches, Female priests and sacred manoeuvres..............187 Mama lola and the Ezilis: Themes of Mothering and loving in Haitian vodou ........198 Performative selves : The production of Gender ....207 Toward a Queer Theology of Flourishing : Transsexual embodiment, subjective, and moral Agency..................219 Intimacy surveilled : Religion sex, and secular cunning .................231 Release from Bondage: Sex, Suffering, and Sanctity.........240 Nakedness, Nonviolence, and Brahmacharya: Gandhi`s Experience in Celibate sexuality ............249