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- Title: Introduction: Religion/Sexuality: Politics/Affects (Special ISSUE: RELIGION AND Sexuality) (Essay)
- Author : Borderlands
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Recent public outrage over pedophilia in the Catholic Church, the simmering tensions revealed by cartoon depictions of the prophet Mohammed, and the longstanding consternation about the copulation of gods--whether with animals or humans--suggest the sometimes explosive affects that arise when sexuality unexpectedly erupts within the religious. The articles assembled here discuss how religion and sexuality stand beside each other in ways that generate unexpected political fields, and they explore the long held intimacy between religious and erotic experience. As opposed to asking how institutional religions regulate and administer sex, the authors question the ways sex and eroticism operate as potentialities in relation to anything religious, in order to explore religion and sexuality as found in the weave of everyday life. By looking at the productive qualities that emerge when religion and sexuality touch, or conjoin, aspects of each that are often obscured become illuminated in fresh and productive ways. Taking their lead from recent controversies, as well as those that endure and remain volatile within traditions--periodically bursting into public consciousness and politics--the collection of authors represented here considers the ways meditations on the body, whether human or of saints, prophets and gods, blur the easy distinction between consecration and desecration, or between iconography and pornography. They question the relationship between such things as speech and blasphemy, and the distinction between erotic and non-erotic practices that go into the making and unmaking of religious personages. It is the collective concern with the way religious forms of training often entail cultivating moral and ethical attitudes towards expressions of sexuality and the ways these attitudes often come to animate debate in the political sphere that motivates the wide range of topics discussed in this issue. Together, but by separate means, the authors consider the often distinctly local affects that accompany the religious forms of training that so often lend themselves to violence, or enjoin non-violent comportment.