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Embracing Faith and Desire: Queer and Feminist Engagements with Islam and Christianity as Lived Religions book cover

1st Edition

Embracing Faith and Desire Queer and Feminist Engagements with Islam and Christianity as Lived Religions

Edited By Viola Thimm, Ferdiansyah Thajib Copyright 2026
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge
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Embracing Faith and Desire investigates the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religion from an anthropological lens. Taking women’s, non-binary, and queer religious life-worlds in Muslim and Christian contexts as a cross-cutting research theme, the book brings together scholars from different disciplines and regional contexts who are interested in the interconnectedness of gender dynamics,... Read more

CONTENTS

List of contributors

Foreword

amina wadud

Part 1 - Introducing the field

Embracing faith and desire: Queer and feminist engagements with Islam and Christianity as lived religions: an introduction                                   

Ferdiansyah Thajib and Viola Thimm

Part 2 - Gender and Islam in moving contexts

1. Gendered belonging in a Muslim context: The case of Bangladeshi female migrants in Qatar

Sumiya Fatima Mahmud

2. The feminist politics of Muslim women in the Shaheen Bagh protests: Reimagining identity, secularism, and citizenship in India

Aishani Khurana

3. “It’s not about sex, it's about Fıtrat”: Exploring Turkey’s politics of gender through a religious concept

Karolin Iren Meri Tuncel

Part 3 - Queering Muslim life-worlds

4. LT+ negotiations at the intersection of Islamic faith and desire in Indonesia

Kristina Schneider

5. Betwixt prayers and dances: An autoethnography on agency, performativity, and disoriented spaces among gay Syrian Muslims in Berlin

Luay Niedermayr

6. Queering pilgrimage in Germany: Spiritual mobility as alternative routes to Mecca

Viola Thimm

Part 4 - Perspectives from LGBTQIA+ in Christian contexts

7. “One single flock with diversity”: Community building and diversity promotion in Spanish LGBTQ+ Christian groups

José Barrera-Blanco

8. “Where the Hell is everyone else?”: Exploring the in/visibility of religious queers in Sweden

Elin Lundell

9. Moral transformations of the sexual female body post-Evangelicalism: How emotions and experimentation shape religious change

Rebecca Laura Anne Davis

Part 5 - Concluding remarks

Afterword

Melissa M. Wilcox

Index

Biography

Viola Thimm is an Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Heidelberg University and Senior Lecturer at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Ferdiansyah Thajib is a socio-cultural anthropologist and Senior Lecturer at Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

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