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The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is an outstanding
reference source to this controversial subject area. Since its
founding in 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
has engaged gender in surprising ways. LDS practice of polygamy in
the nineteenth century both fueled rhetoric of patriarchal rule as
well as gave polygamous wives greater autonomy than their
monogamous peers. The tensions over women's autonomy continued
after polygamy was abandoned and defined much of the twentieth
century. In the 1970s, 1990s, and 2010s, Mormon feminists came into
direct confrontation with the male Mormon hierarchy. These public
clashes produced some reforms, but fell short of accomplishing full
equality. LGBT Mormons have a similar history. These movements are
part of the larger story of how Mormonism has managed changing
gender norms in a global context. Comprising over forty chapters by
a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into
four parts: * Methodological issues * Historical approaches *
Social scientific approaches * Theological approaches. These
sections examine central issues, debates, and problems, including:
agency, feminism, sexuality and sexual ethics, masculinity, queer
studies, plural marriage, homosexuality, race, scripture, gender
and the priesthood, the family, sexual violence, and identity. The
Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is essential reading for
students and researchers in religious studies, gender studies, and
women's studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in
related fields, such as cultural studies, politics, anthropology,
and sociology.
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is an outstanding
reference source to this controversial subject area. Since its
founding in 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
has engaged gender in surprising ways. LDS practice of polygamy in
the nineteenth century both fueled rhetoric of patriarchal rule as
well as gave polygamous wives greater autonomy than their
monogamous peers. The tensions over women's autonomy continued
after polygamy was abandoned and defined much of the twentieth
century. In the 1970s, 1990s, and 2010s, Mormon feminists came into
direct confrontation with the male Mormon hierarchy. These public
clashes produced some reforms, but fell short of accomplishing full
equality. LGBT Mormons have a similar history. These movements are
part of the larger story of how Mormonism has managed changing
gender norms in a global context. Comprising over forty chapters by
a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into
four parts: * Methodological issues * Historical approaches *
Social scientific approaches * Theological approaches. These
sections examine central issues, debates, and problems, including:
agency, feminism, sexuality and sexual ethics, masculinity, queer
studies, plural marriage, homosexuality, race, scripture, gender
and the priesthood, the family, sexual violence, and identity. The
Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is essential reading for
students and researchers in religious studies, gender studies, and
women's studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in
related fields, such as cultural studies, politics, anthropology,
and sociology.
During the late second and early third centuries C.E. the
resurrection became a central question for intellectual commentary,
with increasingly tense divisions between those who interpreted the
resurrection as a bodily experience and those who did not. The
relationship between the resurrected person and their mortal flesh
was also a key point of discussion, especially in regards to sexual
desires, body parts, and practices. Early Christians struggled to
articulate how and why these bodily features related to the
imagined resurrected self. The problems posed by the resurrection
thus provoked theological analysis of the mortal body, sexual
desire and gender. Resurrecting Parts is the first study to examine
the place of gender and sexuality in early Christian debates on the
nature of resurrection, investigating how the resurrected body has
been interpreted by writers of this period in order to address the
nature of sexuality and sexual difference. In particular, Petrey
considers the instability of early Christian attempts to separate
maleness and femaleness. Bodily parts commonly signified sexual
difference, yet it was widely thought that future resurrected
bodies would not experience desire or reproduction. In the absence
of sexuality, this insistence on difference became difficult to
maintain. To achieve a common, shared identity and status for the
resurrected body that nevertheless preserved sexual difference,
treatises on the resurrection found it necessary to explain how and
in what way these parts would be transformed in the resurrection,
shedding all associations with sexual desires, acts, and
reproduction. Exploring a range of early Christian sources, from
the Greek and Latin fathers to the authors of the Nag Hammadi
writings, Resurrecting Parts is a fascinating resource for scholars
interested in gender and sexuality in classical antiquity, early
Christianity, asceticism, and, of course, the resurrection and t
During the late second and early third centuries C.E. the
resurrection became a central question for intellectual commentary,
with increasingly tense divisions between those who interpreted the
resurrection as a bodily experience and those who did not. The
relationship between the resurrected person and their mortal flesh
was also a key point of discussion, especially in regards to sexual
desires, body parts, and practices. Early Christians struggled to
articulate how and why these bodily features related to the
imagined resurrected self. The problems posed by the resurrection
thus provoked theological analysis of the mortal body, sexual
desire and gender. Resurrecting Parts is the first study to examine
the place of gender and sexuality in early Christian debates on the
nature of resurrection, investigating how the resurrected body has
been interpreted by writers of this period in order to address the
nature of sexuality and sexual difference. In particular, Petrey
considers the instability of early Christian attempts to separate
maleness and femaleness. Bodily parts commonly signified sexual
difference, yet it was widely thought that future resurrected
bodies would not experience desire or reproduction. In the absence
of sexuality, this insistence on difference became difficult to
maintain. To achieve a common, shared identity and status for the
resurrected body that nevertheless preserved sexual difference,
treatises on the resurrection found it necessary to explain how and
in what way these parts would be transformed in the resurrection,
shedding all associations with sexual desires, acts, and
reproduction. Exploring a range of early Christian sources, from
the Greek and Latin fathers to the authors of the Nag Hammadi
writings, Resurrecting Parts is a fascinating resource for scholars
interested in gender and sexuality in classical antiquity, early
Christianity, asceticism, and, of course, the resurrection and the
body.
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