Religion and sexuality

2014 ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
Allan Hobson
Keyword(s):  
Religion And Sexuality

VICTORIAN WOMAN’S POETRY

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 601-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Shires
Keyword(s):  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Michael Field ◽  
Sonnets From The Portuguese ◽  
Religion And Sexuality

PART OF THE EXCITEMENT of reading Victorian woman’s poetry lies in its manifold refusals to adopt wholesale the codes and conventions of the male poetic tradition. Such refusal may manifest itself in the bold rewriting of forms (as in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese), or in the unhinging of domestic or romantic pieties through irony and other doubling strategies (as in Dora Greenwell’s “Scherzo” or Christina Rossetti’s “Winter: My Secret”). Both the rewriting of male forms and the attack on conventional ideologies opened up new subject positions for women. For example, women’s responses to poetic tradition and to each other’s work initially made use of expressive theory to explore sexual and religious passions simultaneously (as in the poetry of the Brontës), while towards the end of the century, when religion and sexuality were not so inextricably intertwined, women could openly celebrate non-hierarchical sexualities (as in the lesbian poems of Michael Field).

Real True Buds

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Weisenfeld
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
African American Female ◽  
Sexual Deviance ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Theological Language ◽  
Mission Movement ◽  
Roman Catholics ◽  
Religion And Sexuality

This essay focuses on the Philadelphia-based Peace Mission Movement, led by the African American religious figure known as Father Divine and centered on the belief that he was God in a body. The movement, in which committed followers lived celibate lives in sex-segregated communal residences meant to establish the Kingdom of God on earth, saw its peak of membership and influence during the 1930s and early 1940s. Observers frequently painted Divine as a charismatic manipulator who demanded celibacy of his mostly African American female followers, but took a wife in what he described as a spiritual marriage. Such criticism resonated with American Protestant discourses about papal control of Roman Catholics and the sexual deviance and social dangers of celibacy. The essay turns attention from outsiders’ preoccupation with Divine to ask questions about religion and sexuality among his followers. It examines the case of a group of women in the movement who embraced Divine’s requirement to reject all human relationships and mortal desire, yet expressed connection to and longing for one another through the Peace Mission’s theological language. This case of relationships within the Peace Mission underscores for historians of sexuality and of religion the need to understand religious celibacy as a complex practice and identity, shaped and inflected by the particular theological frameworks and institutions that support it as well as by the broader social context in which its practitioners are located.

Diverse Trajectories at the Intersection of Religion and Sexuality During Emerging Adulthood

2021 ◽  
pp. 347-370
Author(s):  
Brian J. Willoughby ◽  
Loren D. Marks ◽  
David C. Dollahite
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexual Intimacy ◽  
Sexual Values ◽  
Sexual Decision Making ◽  
Religious Lives ◽  
Religion And Sexuality

This chapter explores the intersection of religion and sex among emerging adults. It first discusses the extant empirical literature related to how religion influences sexual behavioral decisions as well as the link between religion and sexual values and attitudes. It then acknowledges a general waning from religion during emerging adulthood but presents diverse trajectories related to the religious lives of emerging adults and their sexual decision making. Next, the chapter discusses a variety of pathways and trajectories through which emerging adults may travel as they navigate decisions involving relationships and sexual intimacy and how such decisions are, may be, or are not influenced by religion. The four presented trajectories are religious rejecters, religious remainers, religious returners, and religious innovators. The chapter concludes by addressing some additional complexities regarding emerging adults, religion, and sex and offers some concluding questions and directions for future research.

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