Religion and Intersex
Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology
- 234 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book considers the situation of intersex people who have faced erasure in the areas of science, law, culture, and theology due to the assumption that all humans are either 'female' or 'male.'
Centered in interviews conducted with German intersex Christians, this book argues that moving from a paradigm of sexual dimorphism to sexual polymorphism will help promote the full humanity and flourishing of intersex people by creating a world where intersex individuals are no longer coerced and/or forced to undergo non-consensual, medically unnecessary treatment, no longer experience human rights violations because of their lack of legal protection, no longer feel inhuman and Other due to epistemic injustice that stems from socio-cultural norms and stereotypes, are no longer told they are not made in God's image as a result of a sexually dimorphic understanding of Genesis 1: 27, and no longer feel excluded and invisible in worship services that do not recognize them.
This combination of the practical and the spiritual allows for a reconsideration of the medical treatment and pastoral care that should be available to intersex people. This book will be helpful to those in the disciplines of science, law, culture, and theology, particularly those in gender and theological studies and those already in and studying for lay and ordained ministry.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: âI Donât Understand How We Christians Allow This To Happenâ
- 1. âThe Knife of the Normâ: Intersex from Scientific Perspectives
- 2. âIf Youâre Not Written Specifically into the Law, You Are Specifically Excluded from the Lawâ: Intersex from Legal Perspectives
- 3. âI Am Not Other, I Am Different. But Just like Youâ: Intersex from Cultural Perspectives
- 4. âGod Created Us, All of Us, in All of Our Differences and Beautiful Uniquenessâ: Intersex from Theological Perspectives
- 5. âThe Liturgy Is the Expression of All the People of God, and All Those People Need to Have Their Voices Heardâ: Intersex from Liturgical Perspectives
- Index