BODIES AT THE MARGINS: The Case of Transsexuality in Catholic and Shia Ethics

This essay explores the ways in which emerging religious understandings of sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) have potential for new work in comparative ethics. I focus on the startling diversity of teachings on transsexuality among the Vatican and leading Shia clerics in Iran. While the Vatican reje...

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Main Author: Bucar, Elizabeth M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2010, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 601-615
Further subjects:B Shia Islam
B Iran
B Sex
B transsexuality
B Catholicism
B Gender
B comparative ethics
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