Journal article
SHE'S UPRIGHT: SEXUALITY AND OBSCENITY IN ISLAM
Hawwa (Leiden), Vol.5(2-3), pp.262-288
01/01/2007
DOI: 10.1163/156920807782912544
Abstract
This paper explores the concepts of sexuality and obscenity in Islamic traditions and the way cultures and society shape the value systems that judge beauty, propriety, and legality. I conclude that societal values are preserved in emerging religious teachings by way of expanding categories for acts, rules, and values and by relying on practice-based consensus; not on negotiated consensus. As such, in Islam, obscenity and profanity become nuisances that disturb individuals' spiritual balance and unwanted variables that destabilize social equilibrium.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- SHE'S UPRIGHT: SEXUALITY AND OBSCENITY IN ISLAM
- Creators
- A. E. Souaiaia - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Hawwa (Leiden), Vol.5(2-3), pp.262-288
- DOI
- 10.1163/156920807782912544
- ISSN
- 1569-2078
- eISSN
- 1569-2086
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Publishers
- Number of pages
- 27
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2007
- Academic Unit
- Classics and Religious Studies; International Programs; Law Faculty
- Record Identifier
- 9984397193502771
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