Religion in Public interviewed Melissa M. Wilcox (University of California, Riverside) about her recently published book, Queer Religiosities: An Introduction to Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion, and about how she sees the exciting field of queer and trans studies in religion developing. This interview was conducted by Hollie Gowan,...
In this post, we speak to Dr Caroline Starkey and Professor Emma Tomalin about the exciting release of their new book ‘The Routeledge Handbook of Religion, Gender and Society’. Routeledge: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Religion-Gender-and-Society/Starkey-Tomalin/p/book/9781032161402 How has this book come about? A few years ago, Emma completed a very successful Routledge...
by Adriaan van Klinken On Valentine’s Day 2022, the book Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugees and the Bible, was launched at The Nature Network (TNN), a community-based organisation of LGBTQ+ refugees based in Nairobi, Kenya. Sacred Queer Stories is a book about love – queer love that is contested...
We are delighted to announce the publication of a new book: Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives and the Bible, by Adriaan van Klinken and Johanna Stiebert with Sebyala Brian and Fredrick Hudson (Religion in Transforming Africa series). Woodbridge, Suffolk/Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2021. How has this book come...
Adriaan van Klinken and Ezra Chitando, Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa (African Arguments series). London: Hurst & Co / New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. How has this book come about? A few years ago, I spoke at the launch of the book Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the...
Mikel Burley is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Leeds, Co-Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Religion and a member of the Centre for Religion and Public Life. His new book, A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary, was published by Bloomsbury in...
Johanna Stiebert is Professor of the Hebrew Bible at the University of Leeds, and a member of the Centre for Religion and Public Life. Her new book, Rape Myths, the Bible and #MeToo, has just been published by Routledge, and is the inaugural book in a series focused on current...
Dr Caroline Starkey is Associate Professor of Religion and Society at the University of Leeds, and a member of the Centre for Religion and Public Life. Her new book, Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community, has just been published by Routledge, in the series Critical Studies in Buddhism. For the readers...
Q&A with Adriaan van Klinken about his new book, Kenyan, Christian, Queer
By Prue Griffiths The first independent report into the UK Hajj industry reveals a sector that is rapidly expanding and changing – and becoming increasingly expensive for British Muslims. Written in partnership with the Council of British Hajjis, the University of Leeds report recommends measures to protect pilgrims from conflicting information...