Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being

African Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands

Amisah Zenabu Bakuri (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-497-6 (ISBN)

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The self-identifying Ghanaian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch communities residing in the Randstad area of the Netherlands are deeply impacted by religious beliefs and cultural factors in their approach towards sexual health practices, well-being and pleasure. This book shows how religious sensibilities shape the physical activities, beauty practices, and gendered roles that are adopted into the daily lives of these communities in pursuit of their sexual and general well-being. Through an ethnographic account, it explores and challenges the assumptions held around the complex relationship between religion and sexuality.

Amisah Zenabu Bakuri is a research associate at the Faculty of Religion and Theology, Beliefs and Practices, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Before this, she worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.

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Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Stereotypical Representations: Religion and Cultural Encounters in the Netherlands

Chapter 1. Methodology and Study Participants

Chapter 2. The Biopolitics of Physical Activities, Sexuality and Health

Chapter 3. Practices of Beautification: People's Gendered Sense of the Self and Belonging

Chapter 4. ‘We Will Do What Works Best for Us’: Redefining Masculinities Within the Domestic Space

Chapter 5. Piety and Pleasure in the Cultivation of One’s Religious Self and Sexuality

Conclusion: Rethinking Religion in the Context of Sexual Well-Being

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Erscheinungsdatum	23.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-80539-497-5 / 1805394975
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-497-6 / 9781805394976
Zustand	Neuware