The Virgin and the Whore - An Interreligious Challenge for Our Times: Exploring the Politics of Religious Belonging with Tamar
The boundaries of religious belonging are often based upon essentialist patriarchal conceptions of decency and morality that have been shaped into doctrine; those who are deemed indecent are marginalized to locations of struggle and often met with violence - thus presenting an interreligious challen...
| Subtitles: | In Honesty and in Hope: Rethinking Interreligious Engagement for Our Times |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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| In: |
The ecumenical review
Year: 2019, Volume: 71, Issue: 5, Pages: 693-705 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society HB Old Testament NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Virgin
B Belonging B Tamar B whore |
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| Summary: | The boundaries of religious belonging are often based upon essentialist patriarchal conceptions of decency and morality that have been shaped into doctrine; those who are deemed indecent are marginalized to locations of struggle and often met with violence - thus presenting an interreligious challenge for our times. This paper will explore the gendered politics of religious belonging through an intersectional lens, focusing on the virgin/whore dichotomy in Christianity. It aims to undress exclusive notions of religious belonging and expose the hegemonic systems that have created ideological boundaries intended to control the bodies of women. It will then look to the narrative of Tamar and Judah in the book of Genesis, where prostitution, Levirate marriage, widowhood, childbirth, ethnicity, honour killing, and sexual desires shape the text and force the reader to confront questions of morality, justice, and the politics of religious belonging. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12473 |