The Church’s Dilemma

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Women's Equality ◽  
Women's Ordination ◽  
And Gender

This chapter presents a thematic analysis of official Church discourse on sex and gender—issues central to Catholicism and, beyond religion, publicly salient to contemporary questions of personal identity and social relationships. Focusing on abortion, same-sex relationships, and women’s ordination, it assesses the postsecular attunement of the Church’s respective arguments, and it notes the continuities between its reasoning on abortion and on social justice. The chapter argues that Pope Francis is symbolically disrupting Church discourse by recalibrating the Church’s public priorities, moving them away from sexual issues, offering a more compassionate framing of abortion, and using a more inclusive vocabulary, as well as meaningful silences on gay sexuality. His stance on women’s ordination, by contrast, especially the continuing ban on its discussion, defies postsecular expectations. The chapter probes the tensions in Francis’s construal of women’s equality and concludes by highlighting how clericalism may perpetuate Church officials’ biased understanding of women.

scholarly journals REKONSTRUKSI PERAN DAN HAK PEREMPUAN DALAM ORGANISASI MASYARAKAT ISLAM

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ahmad Suhendra
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
And Gender

Islam as a religion of rah}mat for all of nature, without knowing the sex and gender. However, the role and rights of women is often times overlooked in public relations. Islamic community organizations as well as institutions have not provided a significant change in gender issues. Thus, this article will try to reconstruct the gender issues on women and the Islamic community organizations, especially related to the role and rights of women in the organization.

Conflicts Within the Anglican Communion

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
First Century ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
The West ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Church

The churches of the Anglican Communion discussed issues of sex and gender throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Arguments about gender focused on the ordination of women to the diaconate, priesthood, and episcopate. Debates about sexuality covered polygamy, divorce and remarriage, and homosexuality. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, these debates became intensely focused on homosexuality and were particularly fierce as liberals and conservatives responded to openly gay bishops and the blessing and marriage of same-sex couples. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, the sex and gender debates had become less acrimonious, the Anglican Communion had not split on these issues as some feared, but the ‘disconnect’ between society and the Church, at least in the West, on issues such as the Church of England’s prevarication on female bishops and opposition to gay marriage, had decreased the Church’s credibility for many.

scholarly journals TheZenne: Male Belly Dancers and Queer Modernity in Contemporary Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOANNA MANSBRIDGE
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
First Century ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Turkish Culture ◽  
Belly Dancing ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the history and contemporary revival of male belly dancers –zenneorköçek– in Turkey and in cities with large Turkish populations, such as Berlin. What does the current revival of male belly dancing tell us about the relationship between modern ideologies of sex and gender and narratives of modernity as they have taken shape in Turkey? Thezennedancer embodies the contradictions of contemporary Turkish culture, which includes a variety of same-sex practices, along with sexual taxonomies that have developed in collusion with discourses of modernity. The revival ofzennedancing can be seen as part of a series of global transformations in the visibility of gay, lesbian, and trans people in popular culture and public discourse. However, it is also an unpredicted consequence of the Justice and Development Party's (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) purposeful revival and romanticization of Turkey's Ottoman past, which has been ahistorically remembered as more pious than the present. Re-emerging in the twenty-first century as an embodiment of competing definitions of sexuality and modernity in contemporary Turkey, precisely at a moment when Turkish national identity is a hotly contested issue, thezennedancer is queer ghost, returning to haunt (and seduce) the present.

Couple Therapy with Same-Sex and Gender-Variant (LGBT) Couples

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valory Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Gender Variant ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
And Gender

Same-sex and gender-variant couples are similar to heterosexual/gender-traditional couples in many ways. However, lesbian, gay, and bisexual couples and couples with one or both transgender partners (LGBT couples) exist in a stigmatizing environment that provides no social structures for them. As a result, these couples face three types of challenges: minority stress, lack of social support, and role and relational ambiguity. The author reviews research on these three challenges and offers specific techniques to address them. A conceptual model creates a bridge between sociocultural challenges and the psychological-relational consequences, affording therapists an understanding of how to plan and implement effective interventions. In addition, seven basic premises provide parameters for work with LGBT couples.

Punishment or Reward? An Experiment on the Effects of Sex and Gender Issues on Candidate Choice

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary R. Anderson ◽  
Christopher J. Lewis ◽  
Chardie L. Baird
Keyword(s):  
Gender Issues ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Sex and gender issues in multiple sclerosis

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne F. Harbo ◽  
Ralf Gold ◽  
Mar Tintoré
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
And Gender
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