Subtitle:
The Department of Religious Studies Series on “Queering Religion”
Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
Dr. Lucinda Ramberg, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Cornell University
Date:
Monday, September 18, 2017 - 17:00 to 19:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
VENUE CHANGED TO: 5400 Wesley W Posvar Hall
Drawing on her own research into a contemporary South Indian practice in which girls are married to a goddess, as well as other ethnographies and histories, this talk takes up the question of sex in the house of religion. It traces a genealogy of the term sacred marriage as a category of comparative religion and considers the ways sex and religion have been produced as discrete from each other. Religious and sexual propriety are tied together, it argues, and religious practices or scenes organize, normalize, and naturalize forms of sexual conduct and misconduct thereby producing their possibilities and powers.
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
UCIS Unit:
Asian Studies Center
Indo-Pacific Council
Other Pitt Sponsors:
Department of Religious Studies
Provost’s Year of Diversity
Humanities Center
University Honors College
Asian Studies Center and Indo-Pacific Council
Departments of Anthropology and Sociology
and Programs in Gender
Sexuality & Women’s Studies and Jewish Studies.