Indigenous Religions - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754629600 ISBN 13 : 9780754629603

Editeur : Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

This volume on Indigenous Religions in The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Religion series focuses on indigenous religions and their attitudes towards human sexuality. Through previously-published articles the volume gives full scope to attitudes towards sexuality found in a vast range of contrasting expressions of religiosity outside of the so-called 'World Faiths'. Examples are taken from cultures as far afield as Africa, Australasia, South America and the Pacific islands. Part 1 includes a number of articles centring on the role of sexuality in rites of passage and initiation in relation to liminality, maturity and reproduction. Part 2 examines the relationship between sexuality, spirit possession and witchcraft. Part 3 includes such areas as religion, gender, patriarchy and both hetero-sexualality and non-heterosexuality. The final part considers sexuality and indigenous religions in a changing and globalised world and entails the themes of sexuality as expressed through 'cargo cults', pilgrimage and religiosity in the context of colonial dominance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stephen Hunt is Reader in Sociology at the University of the West of England, UK

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754629600
• ISBN 13: 9780754629603
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 530
• Éditeur: Hunt Stephen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible