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Summary
Summary
This volume on Indigenous Religions in The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Religion series focuses on indigenous religions and their attitudes towards human sexuality. Through previously-published articles the volume gives full scope to attitudes towards sexuality found in a vast range of contrasting expressions of religiosity outside of the so-called 'World Faiths'. Examples are taken from cultures as far afield as Africa, Australasia, South America and the Pacific islands. Part 1 includes a number of articles centring on the role of sexuality in rites of passage and initiation in relation to liminality, maturity and reproduction. Part 2 examines the relationship between sexuality, spirit possession and witchcraft. Part 3 includes such areas as religion, gender, patriarchy and both hetero-sexualality and non-heterosexuality. The final part considers sexuality and indigenous religions in a changing and globalised world and entails the themes of sexuality as expressed through 'cargo cults', pilgrimage and religiosity in the context of colonial dominance.
Author Notes
Stephen Hunt is Reader in Sociology at the University of the West of England, UK
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
| Part I Rites of Passage and Sexuality |
| The timing and role of initiation rites in preparing young people for adolescence and responsible sexual and reproductive behaviour in MalawiAlister C. Munthali and Eliya M. Zulu |
| Coming of age in Samoa and NebraskaDavid Weisberg |
| Learning the facts of life: past and present experiences in a rural Tanzanian communityDenise Roth Allen |
| Growing yams and men: an interpretation of Kiman male ritualized homosexual behaviourJ. Patrick Gray |
| Liminal meanings: sexually charged Giriama funerary ritual and unsettled participant frameworksJanet McIntosh |
| Part II Spiritual Possession, Witchcraft and Sexuality |
| Perversion of power, witchcraft and the sexuality of evil in the South African lowveldIsak Niehaus |
| Witchcraft and the exchange of sex, blood, and money among Africans in Cape Town, South AfricaErik Bähre |
| 'Broken calabashes and covenants of fruitfulness': cursing barrenness in contemporary African ChristianityJ.Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu |
| Male homosexuality and spirit possession in BrazilPeter Fry |
| Women heal women: spirit possession and sexual segregation in a Muslim societyPamela Constantinides |
| Part III Gender and Sexuality |
| Manhood, warriorhood and sex in Eastern Africa: perspectives from the 19th and 20th centuriesDent Ocaya-Lakidi |
| Sex, food and female power: discussion of data material from Northern MozambiqueSigne Arnfred |
| Heteronormativity and the deflection of male same-sex attraction among the Pitjantjatjara people of Australia's Western DesertJon Willis |
| Sexuality and gender in certain Native American tribes: the case of cross-gender femalesEvelyn Blackwood |
| Queer Nahuatl: Sahagún's faggots and sodomites, lesbians and hermaphroditesPeter Sigal |
| Part IV Social Transformations and Sexuality |
| Sexuality and cargo cults: the politics of gender and procreation in West New BritainAndrew Lattas |
| Myth, pilgrimage and fascination in the Aiyappa cult. A view from field work in Tamil NaduLars Kjaerholm |
| Reclaiming the past to inform the future: contemporary views of Maori sexualityClive Aspin and Jessica Hutchings |
| 'That monster of nature': gender, sexuality and the medicalization of a 'hermaphrodite' in late colonial GuatemalaMartha Few |
| The sins of the fathers: Franciscan friars, parish priests and the sexual conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1545-1808'John F. Chuchiak |
| Name index |
