Religion, Gender and Sexuality Books

New and Published Books

1. A Woman's Ramayana

   Candravati's Bengali Epic

   By Mandakranta Bose, Sarika Bose

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   The Ramayana, an ancient epic of India, with audiences across vast stretches of time and geography, continues to influence numberless readers socially and morally through its many re-tellings. Made available in English for the first time, the 16th century version presented here is by Candravati, a...

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
2. Media, Religion and Gender

   Key Issues and New Challenges

   Edited by Mia Lövheim

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   Media, Religion and Gender presents a selection of eminent current scholarship that explores the role gender plays when religion, media use and values in contemporary society interact. The book: surveys the development of research on media, religion and culture through the lens of key...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality

   Ethnographic Approaches

   Edited by Anna Fedele, Kim Knibbe

   Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

   This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies. What strategies do...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sexuality, Religion and the Sacred

   Bisexual, Pansexual and Polysexual Perspectives

   Edited by Loraine Hutchins, H. Sharif Williams

   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...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
5. Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature

   From Cædmon to Malory

   By Lawrence Besserman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

   This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
6. Early Christian Dress

   Gender, Virtue, and Authority

   By Kristi Upson-Saia

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

   Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attention to the ways in which dress expressed and shaped Christian identity, the role dress played in Christians’ rivalries with pagan neighbours, and especially to the ways in which...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
7. Women, Islam and Everyday Life

   Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia

   By Nina Nurmila

   Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series

   This book examines Islam and women’s everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy. It discusses the competing interpretations of the Qur’anic verses that are at the heart of Muslim controversies over polygamy, with some groups believing that Islam enshrines...

   Published April 10th 2011 by Routledge
8. Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800–1940

   Edited by Sue Morgan, Jacqueline de Vries

   This volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over women’s roles and ministry. This collection of pieces by key scholars combines cross-disciplinary insights from...

   Published May 9th 2010 by Routledge
9. Sin or Salvation

   Implications for Psychotherapy

   Edited by Amy Mahoney, Oliva M. Espin

   When in therapy, women inevitably present both sexual and spiritual issues of importance. However, there has yet to be brought forth an integrating approach to women’s sexuality and spirituality. The book fills this gap, integrating these two diverse yet connected aspects of therapy. This...

   Published December 8th 2009 by Routledge
10. Doing Contextual Theology

    By Angie Pears

    Christian theology, like all forms of knowledge, thinking and practice, arises from and is influenced by the context in which it is done. In Doing Contextual Theology, Angie Pears demonstrates the radically contextual nature of Christian theology by focusing on five forms of liberation...

    Published September 14th 2009 by Routledge