49 P - Sexual Desire in Islam, Judaisim, and Catholicism

Thursday, June 1, 2017: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
BRESL 29 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Miriam Shadis, Ohio University
Sexuality and Gender Slippage in the Byzantine Illuminated Book
Mati Meyer, The Open University of Israel
Desire, Deviance and Muslim Elite in Medieval India
Shadab Bano, Aligarh Muslim University
Authority, Agency, and Female Sexual Pleasure in the Catholic Tradition
Doris Marie Kieser, St. Joseph's College, University of Alberta
Female Sexual Desire in Shi'ite Islam: Lessons from Marital Advice Literature
Fatemeh Hosseini, Georgetown University

Session Abstract

This panel looks at the role of women in religion, from iconography to teachings. Mati Meyer explores the female figure in Byzantine art, and Shadab Bano discusses religious teachings around sexual desire in Mughal India. Doris Kieser and Fatemeh Hosseini focus on the twentieth century world, with Kieser’s paper examining the Roman Catholic teachings about sexuality in the wake of Vatican II, and Hosseini considering the advice on marital sexuality offered in books by Shi’ite clergy.

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