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African Indigenous Traditions
Buddhism
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Catholicism
Christianity
Confucianism
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Gender and Desire
Hindu Tantra
Homosexuality
Intermarriage
Islam
Jewish Approaches to Sexuality
LGBT Community
Native American Worldviews
Neopagan Spirituality
Protestantism

Product details

  • ISBN 9781576073599
  • Weight: 964g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Aug 2003
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
Exploring one of the most controversial topics in contemporary theology, this scholarly volume reveals what the world's great faiths—East and West—preach about sexuality, with a special emphasis on American religion. What do the world's most important religious texts have to say about one of humanity's favorite activities? Editors David W. Machacek and Melissa M. Wilcox have brought together top scholars in the field of religious studies to ask and answer these critical questions. Carefully researched, elegantly written, and respectfully presented, Sexuality and the World's Religions explores the intersection of the spiritual and the carnal in Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and African and Native American spiritual traditions. A separate section explores critical religious and sexual topics in American society, including the role of spirituality in gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities; the role of sex in the modern witchcraft community; and the ever thorny problem of religion and sexual liberty. Reconciling sexuality and spirituality in every human soul is one of religion's most important tasks. Students and other readers will find this timely and comprehensive volume of interest in exploring these issues.
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David Machacek is Resident Fellow at the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Hartford, CT. Melissa Wilcox is Visiting Johnston Professor of Religion at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.