Do Christians have the best sex? What kind of sex is best? And what does sex have to do with…
Keeping sex sexy: American evangelicalism and the problem of sexuality
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Short skirts and niqab bans: On sexuality and the secular body
Introduced in Québec in March 2010, Bill 94 proposed requiring women to unveil their faces if they wanted to work…
CFP: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the 20th Century United States
Editors Gillian Frank (Stony Brook University), Heather White (New College of Florida), and Bethany Moreton (University of Georgia) have issued…
CFP: Gender & Society
The Committee for the Study of Religion at the CUNY Graduate Center has announced a call for papers for its Special Issue of Gender &…
A postcolonial genealogy of secularism and sexuality
A public lecture recently delivered by Saba Mahmood at the London School of Economics entitled "Secularism, Religion and Sexuality: A Postcolonial Genealogy"…
Encountering the archive
Where on earth to begin with the rich but deeply disturbing material presented to us on BishopAccountability.org? (For an example,…
The curious case of Paul Richard Shanley
In the discursive regime of sexual abuse, the operative silence is the victim’s. This silence stems from shame and intimidation.…
Sexuality and the Catholic Church
This past week the Catholic church denounced Sister Margaret A. Farley, an American nun and professor of Christian Ethics at…
Religion and the body
The Scholar & Feminist Online, an e-journal published by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, recently launched a special…
Religion and marriage debate
Should the state be in the business of marriage, or is it inherently a religious union that should be performed…