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Religion prohibits and regulates, condemns and blesses, punishes and rewards. No more so than in the realm of sex. Your sexual partner, marital status, the colour of your skin, your religion or caste are all factors that can lead to redemption or perdition. Welcome to the sexual universe of religion. In Sex and Religion, Dag Øistein Endsjø takes a close look at religious attitudes to sex in all cultures. While Christian teenage girls promise God that they will relinquish sex until they are married, Buddhist monks call attention to gay sex as a holy mystery. While the Christian church questions a homosexual's place in church, others ask whether there should be a death penalty for heterosexual sex, whether promiscuity leads to hurricanes and nuclear war, whether God condemns marriage between black and white and why some religious sex rules are emphasized while others are forgotten.

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9781861898159

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'The writing is so shrewd, the observation so keen and the background so rich that one can only be - yes, the only word is impressed. And that doesn't happen often ... It is remarkable ... nothing short of a great academic achievement ... Sex and Religion will be just as useful in our daily lives as in academic seminars.' Morgenbladet

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Dag A istein Endsjo is Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Bergen, specializing in gender, human rights and death studies. His published books include Primordial Landscapes, Incorruptible Bodies (2008) and Greek Resurrection Beliefs and the Success of Christianity (2009), both published in English.

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