The False Dichotomy of Sex and Religion in America

IF 2.4 1区哲学 0 RELIGION

Sociology of Religion Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI:10.1093/socrel/srab062

Kelsy Burke

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Religion and sexuality are polysemic categories. While conservative religion often fights against progressive sexual politics in contemporary America, this “usual story” is fractured and destabilized by people navigating the relationship between religion and sexuality as complex social creatures, not pundits or caricatures. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarship, I examine salient issues of sexual politics—including abortion and reproductive rights, LGBT rights, and pornography—to show how religious actors have been on both sides of these debates. Because of this polysemic complexity, scholars of religion must not only tend to the dynamic interaction between religion and other categories, we must also recognize and study the diversity within the categories themselves.

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美国性与宗教的错误二分法

宗教和性是多义的范畴。虽然在当代美国，保守的宗教经常与进步的性政治作斗争，但人们把宗教和性作为复杂的社会生物来处理，而不是权威人士或漫画人物，这一“寻常的故事”被打破和破坏了。从跨学科的学术研究中，我研究了性政治的突出问题——包括堕胎和生殖权利、LGBT权利和色情——来展示宗教演员是如何在这些辩论的双方都扮演角色的。由于这种多义性的复杂性，宗教学者不仅要关注宗教与其他类别之间的动态互动，而且要认识和研究类别本身的多样性。

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7.50

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6.50%

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期刊介绍： Sociology of Religion, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is published quarterly for the purpose of advancing scholarship in the sociological study of religion. The journal publishes original (not previously published) work of exceptional quality and interest without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach. Although theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded articles are the core of what we publish, we also welcome agenda setting essays, comments on previously published works, critical reflections on the research act, and interventions into substantive areas or theoretical debates intended to push the field ahead. Sociology of Religion has published work by renowned scholars from Nancy Ammerman to Robert Wuthnow. Robert Bellah, Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, and Pitirim Sorokin all published in the pages of this journal. More recently, articles published in Sociology of Religion have won the ASA Religion Section’s Distinguished Article Award (Rhys Williams in 2000) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Article Award (Matthew Lawson in 2000 and Fred Kniss in 1998). Building on this legacy, Sociology of Religion aspires to be the premier English-language publication for sociological scholarship on religion and an essential source for agenda-setting work in the field.