Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality
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Stephen J. Hunt is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of the West of England, UK and Andrew K.T. Yip is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK.’The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality is a welcome and much-needed addition to books on religion and sexuality that seeks to situate this new field through a collection of excellent papers on: epistemological and methodological issues; religious texts; institutional settings; stability, transformation and change; and contesting hegemonic structures and discourses. It is comprehensive, covering a wide range of topics, religious traditions, methods and theories. In particular, the book recognizes the fluidity of lived religion as well as the often-regulatory nature of official religious voices. In this volume there is much of use for both scholars and students alike. This book will definitely become compulsory reading for my Religion and Sex course.’ Pamela Dickey Young, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada ’By bringing religion and sexuality into constructive conversation through interdisciplinary inquiry, Stephen J. Hunt and Andrew Yip have achieved a cutting-edge contribution to scholarship. Written by both senior and junior researchers, the essays in the Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality are fresh, innovative and inspiring.’ Lori G. Beaman, University of Ottawa, Canada ’This is a fascinating collection of essays on the complex relationships and negotiations between religions and human sexualities. It is the sheer diversity of perspectives and approaches that makes this volume so interesting and challenging. Scholarly, yet written in an accessible style, these essays will be of interest to all of us who study this topic.’ Elizabeth Stuart, University of Winchester, UK ’The number of those practicing religion may be in decline, but religion and its practice - both as ritual and social engagement - is ever more discussed, contested or lauded, and not least with regard to what religion has to say about sex and gender, religion’s construction of the human sexes and their pass