This book examines key themes and concepts pertaining to religious and sexual identities and expressions, mapping theoretical, methodological and empirical dimensions. It explores the ways in which debates around sexuality and religion have been framed, and what research is still needed to expand the field as it develops.

Sarah-Jane Page is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Aston University, UK, and the co-author of Religious and Sexual Identities: A Multi-faith Exploration of Young Adults and Understanding Young Buddhists: Living Out Ethical Journeys.

Heather Shipley is Project Manager for the Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is co-author, with Pamela Dickey Young (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada) of Identities Under Construction: Religion, Gender and Sexuality among Youth in Canada and editor of Globalized Religion and Sexual Identity: Contexts, Contestations, Voices.

Introduction 1. Situating Sexualities and Religion: Place, Space and the Body 2. Understanding Sexualities and Religion through Censure and Control 3. Identity, Sexualities and Religion 4. Methodological Insights: Researching Religion and Sexualities 5. Conceptualising the 'Normative': The Straight Time Model 6. Navigating the 'Normative': Constituting Safe and Unsafe Space 7. Gendering Sexuality and Religion 8. Gendered Bodies: Reproductive and Sexual Control 9. Institutional Contexts: Religion and State Processes Conclusion: Managing Religion and Sexualities