Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States write by David Rayside. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For decades, agitation by lesbians, gays, and other sexual minorities for political recognition has provoked a heated response among religious activists in both Canada and the United States. In this remarkable comparative study, expert authors explore the tenacity of anti-gay sentiment, as well as the dramatic shifts in public attitudes towards queer groups across all faith communities in both the United States and Canada. They conclude that, despite the ongoing conflict, religious adherence does not invariably entail opposition to the political acknowledgment of queer rights.
Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States
Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States write by David Rayside. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For decades, agitation by lesbians, gays, and other sexual minorities for political recognition has provoked a heated response among religious activists, many of whom fear that moral decay is a necessary accompaniment to the public recognition of sexual diversity. For their part, queer rights groups worry about the policy ramifications of accommodating faith in the public sphere. This remarkable comparative study explores the interplay of sexual diversity and religious faith in the United States and Canada, and examines how interest group mobilization, political party ties to religious constituencies, court rulings, public policy, and debates over sexuality within faith communities have contributed to conflict and bridge-building in both countries. A timely discussion of faith, sexuality, and political conflict, Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity reveals that, despite the presence of tenacious anti-gay sentiment, religious adherence does not invariably entail opposition to the political recognition of queer rights.
Religion and Canadian Party Politics
Religion and Canadian Party Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Canadian Party Politics write by David Rayside. This book was released on 2017-06-07. Religion and Canadian Party Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religion is usually thought of as inconsequential to contemporary Canadian politics. Religion and Canadian Party Politics takes a hard look at just how much influence faith continues to have in federal, provincial, and territorial political arenas. Drawing on case studies from across the country, this book explores three important axes of religiously based contention in Canada. Early on, there were the denominational distinctions between Catholics and Protestants that shaped party oppositions. Since the 1960s, a newly politicized divide opened between religious conservatives and political reformers. Then from the 1990s on, sporadic controversy has centred on the recognition of non-Christian religious minority rights. Although the extent of partisan engagement with each of these sources of conflict has varied across time and region, this book shows that religion still matters in shaping party politics . This detailed look at the play of religiously based conflict and accommodation in Canada fills a large gap and pulls us back from overly simplified comparisons with the United States. More broadly, this book also compares the role of faith in politics in Canada to that of other Western industrialized societies.
Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity
Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity write by M. Rahman. This book was released on 2014-01-30. Homosexualities, Muslim Cultures and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues as a key marker of western superiority and by identifying the ways in which Muslim homophobia contributes to this dialectic.
Sexualities in World Politics
Sexualities in World Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sexualities in World Politics write by Manuela Lavinas Picq. This book was released on 2015-05-15. Sexualities in World Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As LGBTQ claims acquire global relevance, how do sexual politics impact the study of International Relations? This book argues that LGBTQ perspectives are not only an inherent part of world politics but can also influence IR theory-making. LGBTQ politics have simultaneously gained international prominence in the past decade, achieving significant policy change, and provoked cultural resistance and policy pushbacks. Sexuality politics, more so than gender-based theories, arrived late on the theoretical scene in part because sexuality and gender studies initially highlighted post-structuralist thinking, which was hardly accepted in mainstream political science. This book responds to a call for a more empirically motivated but also critical scholarship on this subject. It offers comparative case-studies from regional, cultural and theoretical peripheries to identify ways of rethinking IR. Further, it aims to add to critical theory, broadening the knowledge about previously unrecognized perspectives in an accessible manner. Being aware of preoccupations with the de-queering, disciplining nature of theory establishment in the social sciences, we critically reconsider IR concepts from a particular LGBTQ vantage point and infuse them with queer thinking. Considering the relative dearth of contemporary mainstream IR-theorizing, authors ask what contribution LGBTQ politics can provide for conceiving the political subject, as well as the international structure in which activism is embedded. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of gender politics, cultural studies and international relations theory.
