E-grāmata: Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology

"Budwey comprehensively and authoritatively orients readers to recent developments in legal and theological accounts of diverse sex. Intersex people's voices are always centred. The analysis of intersex's liturgical erasure is a particularly powerful challenge to Christian communities." - Susannah Cornwall, Professor of Constructive Theologies, University of Exeter, UK

"Budwey demonstrates the importance of intersex people and the detriment of their erasure through ethnographic research, bringing to life the polyvocality of intersex Christians that creates conditions for a tangible move beyond the gender binary to(ward) the materiality of polymorphism. This research establishes a theology of liturgy of the everyday, encouraging the deepest, most radical flourishing for intersex people and their freedom to participate fully in the work of the people; a literal liturgical expression of sexual difference." - Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Visiting Professor, Duke Divinity School, Durham, USA

"In this terrific resource Budweys ethnographic research allows many who are polymorphic to 'speak' about how they are traumatized, mutilated, excluded and erased by sexual and gender dimorphism. Their voices inform contemporary efforts to establish a more inclusive sexual paradigm for biblical interpretation, Christian ethics, pastoral care and worship." - Patricia Beattie Jung, Professor of Christian Ethics, Saint Paul School of Theology, USA

"In five skillfully curated chapters, Stephanie A. Budweys monograph presents six intersex interviewees who discuss surgical, medical, and liturgical erasure of their physical complexities in an attempt to force their bodies to fit male or female sex. Budwey places her interview partners in dialogue with prominent gender theorists and published intersex authors such that the book provides a broad yet concise introduction to literature on intersex and Christianity. [ ...] Budwey brings the scholarly dialogue on intersex closer to where it needs to be: based in observational study of physical reality, both human and animal, that proves sexually polymorphic bodies are normal; accepting of a human past in whichno matter what twentieth-century scholars insistgender was not solely male or female; and working toward a future in which sex and gender do not define who gets to be considered human or deserving of human rights." - Indira Falk Gesink in QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion