TY - BOOK
T1 - Secular Practices
T2 - The Production of Religious Difference in the Dutch field of Sexual Health
AU - Wiering, Jelle Oscar
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This anthropological study investigates the intersections of secularity, sexuality, and religion in the Dutch field of sexual health. It conceives of secularity as a collection of practices that propose a particular delineation of the religious and the irreligious. The first part of this book examines the normativities that underpin the irreligious notions of sexuality that are advocated in the field. It shows that these notions of sexuality entail gendered assumptions that encourage people to conceive of sexuality as a normal topic that is liberated from constraining taboos. The second part of the book focuses on the secular practices that use religion as a scapegoat to more convincingly promote these understandings of sexuality. It shows how secular practices evoke problematic stereotypical representations of religion to, implicitly, propose particular irreligious notions as a superior alternative. Taking seriously the objects, embodied configurations and sensibilities that these secular practices draw upon, the book renders insight into how secularity happens in everyday Dutch society.
AB - This anthropological study investigates the intersections of secularity, sexuality, and religion in the Dutch field of sexual health. It conceives of secularity as a collection of practices that propose a particular delineation of the religious and the irreligious. The first part of this book examines the normativities that underpin the irreligious notions of sexuality that are advocated in the field. It shows that these notions of sexuality entail gendered assumptions that encourage people to conceive of sexuality as a normal topic that is liberated from constraining taboos. The second part of the book focuses on the secular practices that use religion as a scapegoat to more convincingly promote these understandings of sexuality. It shows how secular practices evoke problematic stereotypical representations of religion to, implicitly, propose particular irreligious notions as a superior alternative. Taking seriously the objects, embodied configurations and sensibilities that these secular practices draw upon, the book renders insight into how secularity happens in everyday Dutch society.
U2 - 10.33612/diss.135296628
DO - 10.33612/diss.135296628
M3 - Thesis fully internal (DIV)
PB - University of Groningen
CY - [Groningen]
ER -