Bisexuality, Religion and Spirituality

This book brings together the work of an international team of experts investigating the intersection of bisexuality, religion and spirituality.

Autorentext

Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. His recent books include Sexual Identities: A Multi-faith Exploration of Young Adults (with Sarah-Jane Page), Cosmopolitan Dharma: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in British Buddhism (with Sharon Smith and Sally Munt), Understanding Young Buddhists: Living out Ethical Journeys (with Sarah-Jane Page), Critical Pedagogy, Sexuality Education, and Young People (with Fida Sanjakdar) and Intersecting Sexuality and Religion: Sociological Perspectives (with Sarah-Jane Page). He is currently writing, with Carl Ridler, a book provisionally entitled Intersecting and Contested Identities: Gay and Bisexual Arab Men in Everyday Life.

Alex Toft is a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families at Nottingham Trent University. His research focuses upon sexuality, gender, disability, spirituality and identity. His publications include Young, Disabled and LGBT+: Voices, Identities and Intersections (with Anita Franklin), and he has published in journals such as Sexualities and Journal of LGBT Youth. He has worked on projects funded by organisations such as the NSPCC and the Fundamental Rights Agency (EU), and recently received British Academy funding to conduct research exploring the negotiation of identity in the lives of young disabled LGBT+ people.

Inhalt

1. Bisexuality, Religion and Spirituality: Instigating a Dialogue

2. Bisexuality, (Non)Religion and Spirituality in Canadian Young Adults

3. Identifying as Young, Disabled and Bisexual within Evangelical Christianity: Abigail's Story

4. Bisexual Erasure and Religious Spaces: Experiences of Young Adults in the United Kingdom

5. Ritual and Liminality: Bisexuality within Christianity and Paganism

6. Negotiating Sexuality and Spirituality: The Lived Experiences of Bisexual Persons

7. Ambiguities, Authenticity and Actualisation: Life Story Research with a Bisexual Christian

8. 'Sweet Blasphemy': Elif Shafak, Bisexuality and Sufism

9. Religion, Male Bisexuality and Sexual Risk in Lebanon

10. Depression and Suicidality among Bisexual Christians

11. Bisexual Wellbeing: Impacts of Current Religion and Childhood Experiences