Exploring the intersection between religion, gender and sexuality within the context of everyday life, this volume examines contested identities, experiences, bodies and desires on the individual and collective levels. With rich case studies from the UK, USA, Europe, and Asia, Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life sheds light on the manner in which individuals appropriate, negotiate, transgress, invert and challenge the norms and models of various religions in relation to gender and sexuality, and vice versa.

Peter Nynÿs is Professor of Comparative Religion at and Director of The Center of Excellence in Research, 'Post-Secular Culture and A Changing Religious Landscape in Finland' at Ã...bo Akademi University, Finland. He is editor of Transforming Otherness. Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests include contemporary religious/spiritual identities, sexual identities, youth culture, ageing, and human rights. His writings have appeared in journals such as British Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Theology & Sexuality, Sexualities, Sociological Research Online and Contemporary Islam. He is also the author of Gay Male Christian Couples: Life Stories (1997); and co-author/co-editor of Lesbian and Gay Lives over 50 (2003), Queer Spiritual Spaces: Sexuality and Sacred Places (2010), Religion, Youth and Sexuality: A Multi-faith Exploration (2011), and The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality (2012).

Chapter 1 Re-framing the Intersection between Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Peter Nynäs; Chapter 2 The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms, Vanja Hamzi?; Chapter 3 Spirituality, Activism, and the 'Postsecular' in the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Melissa M. Wilcox; Chapter 4 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh Young Adults: Gendered Practices in the Negotiation of Sexuality and Relationship, Sarah-Jane Page, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip; Chapter 5 Coping with Religious and Cultural Homophobia: Emotion and Narratives of Identity Threat among British Muslim Gay Men, Rusi Jaspal; Chapter 6 Sexualities in the Migration Context: Religious Influences on Views on Abortion and Homosexuality, Bernadetta Siara; Chapter 7 Queering Conversion: Exploring New Theoretical Pathways to Understand Religious Conversion in a Western Context, Wim Peumans, Christiane Stallaert; Chapter 8 Body and Sexuality Constructs among Youth of the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community, Sara Zalcberg, Sima Zalcberg; Chapter 9 When God is Not So Good: Corporate Religion contra New Social Movements, Kenneth Houston;