Sexuality, Gender And Religion In Contemporary Discourses (PDF)

One of the most current issues occupying both public and academic discourse is sexuality and the related issues of sexual self-determination, gender order, and homophobia. Religion has a significant role to play in this discourse. This centrality of religion is evident not only in the question of moral codes, but also in questions of understanding the body and gender. In this context, it should be emphasized that religion - or, more precisely, a particular interpretation of the religious - can have both a conflict-promoting and an emancipatory effect. If one wants to conceptualize a contemporary theological understanding, then it is necessary to receive medical, psychological as well as social and cultural science research. The anthology aims to thematize these debates and to broaden the view for the multi-layered processes of change taking place in the discourses.

Editors:

Fahimah Ulfat is Professor of Islamic Religious Education at the Center for Islamic Theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Ali Ghandour is a research assistant at the Center for Islamic Theology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.