Religion and Sexualities: Theories, Themes, and Methodologies
Understanding religion and sexualitiesThe projectssynopsisNotesSITUATING SEXUALITIES AND RELIGION: Place, space, and the bodyIntroductionTheoretical omissions: Integrating sexuality into the sociology of religionLocating sexuality and religion in time and spaceEmbodimentSummaryNoteUnderstanding sexualities and religion through censure and controlIntroductionSecularisationSurveillance and biopowerOrganising normativesSummaryIdentity, sexualities, and religionIntroductionIdentityIdentity-work and the achieving of an identityNarrating identityPerformativity and identityPerforming pietyIdentity as a stigmaCommercialised and commodified sexual identitiesCreating identity through lived religionIntersecting identitiesQueering religious identitiesSummaryMETHODOLOGICAL INSIGHTS: Researching religion and sexualitiesIntroductionQueer and feminist approaches: Redrawing methodological boundariesPower, hierarchy, and researcher reflexivitySurveying religion and sexualityEthnographyInterviews and focus groups: Spatial and identity dynamicsVisual methodsMultiple/mixed methodsAnalysing text and mediaSummaryCONCEPTUALISING THE "NORMATIVE": The straight time modelIntroductionConstructing the heterosexual/homosexual binaryHeteronormativityReligion and heteronormativityReligion as lived: Living out sexuality and religionChallenging the dominance of the lifecourse modelVirginityMarriageReproductionOlder generationsSummaryNotesNAVIGATING THE "NORMATIVE": Constituting safe and unsafe spaceIntroductionConstituting spacePlaces of worshipHomeSchoolFinding safe spaces beyond ‘L’ and ‘G’BisexualityTrans identitiesAsexuality and celibacyNon-monogamy and polyamorySummaryNotesGendering sexuality and religionIntroductionSeparate spheres, Christianity, and a colonial inheritanceGendered bodies: Sexual demarcation and regulationVirginityClothingMenstruationSummaryGENDERED BODIES: Reproductive and sexual controlIntroductionContraceptionAbortionSexual violenceSexual pleasureHeteronormativityMarriageParenthoodSummaryINSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS: Religion and state processesIntroductionState–religious censure of ‘problematic’ bodiesSexual and religious citizenshipRegulating genderQueer citizenshipReligious discourses on sexualityContingent discoursesInterpreting the discourses: Youth voicesInstitutional sexual abuseSocial classGendered privilegeSummaryBibliography
