Bringing together disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences, this Handbook presents novel and lively examinations of the dynamic ways religion, gender and sexuality operate. Applying feminist, intersectional, and reflexive approaches, the volume aims to loosen imperialist and exclusionary figurations that have underwritten and tethered religion, gender, and sexuality together. While holding onto the field of inquiry, the Handbook offers contributions that interrogate and untie it from the terms and conditions that have formed it. The volume is organized into thematic sections: - Forces and Futures - Activisms and Labors - Agencies and Practices - Relationships and Institutions - Texts and Objects Chapters range across religious, geographical, historical, political, and social contexts and feature an array of case-studies, experiences, and topics that exemplify the reflexive intention of the volume, including explorations of race, whiteness, colonialism, and the institutional intolerance of minority groups. Contributors also advance new areas of research in religion including artificial intelligence, farming, migrant mothering, child sexual abuse, mediatization, national security, legal frameworks, addiction and recovery, decolonial hermeneutics, creative arts, sport, sexual practices, and academic friendship. This is an essential contribution to the fields of religious studies and gender and sexuality studies.

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Sonya Sharma is Associate Professor of Sociology at University College London, UK. Dawn Llewellyn is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender at the University of Chester, UK.Sîan Hawthorne is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Religion and Politics at SOAS, University of London, UK.

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Acknowledgments
Contributors
Writing Ourselves In: Feminist Reflexivity and Academic Friendship, *Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester, UK), Sîan Melvill Hawthorne (SOAS, UK) and Sonya Sharma (University College London, UK)*
Loosening Religion, Gender, and Sexuality: An Introduction, *Sîan Melvill Hawthorne (SOAS, UK), Sonya Sharma (University College London, UK) and Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester, UK)*
FORCES AND FUTURES

1. Farming as Spiritual Praxis, Himanee Gupta (SUNY Empire State College*, USA)*
2. Sikh Iconotexts for Global Society, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, (Colby College, USA)
3. Race, Gender, and Religion: A Critical Analysis of Confession's Complicity in "Hegemonic Male Whiteness", Michael J. Oliver (Drew University, USA)
4. Mapping Organized Clerical Child Sexual Abuse Networks: Innovative Approaches, Kathleen McPhillips (University of Newcastle, Australia), Jodi Death (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), Kelly Richards (Queensland University of Technology, Australia), and Jane Fitzgerald (University of Newcastle, Australia)
5. Artificial Eves? Re(-)presentations of Gender in Robots and AI, Scott Midson *(University of Manchester, UK)*
   ACTIVISMS AND LABOURS
6. From A Theology of Transgression to a Theology of Tolerance, Orit Avishai (*Fordham University, USA)*
   7."Fathers and mothers will disappear; Grandpa and grandma will be gone": The Mediatisation of the Faith-based Anti-Gender Movement in Taiwan, Pei-Ru Liao (National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
7. Addiction Recovery at the Intersections of Religion, Gender, and Sexuality, Liam Metcalf-White (University of Chester, UK) and Wendy Dossett (University of Chester, UK)
8. "Sister, you need to have guts!": Catholic Nuns' Care Work and Emotional Labor in Oral History (Italy 1945-1965), Flora Derounian (*University of Sussex, UK)*
   Chapter 10: Gendering Religious Labor and Buddhist Temple Economies in Contemporary Japan, Paulina Kolata (*Lund University, Sweden)*
   AGENCIES AND PRACTICES
9. Cultivating a Desire of One's Own: Religious Change and Sexuality among "Judaizing Evangelical" Women in Brazil, Manoela Carpenedo (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
10. Play and Pray: The Performance of Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Contemporary Sport, Kathrine van den Bogert (Utrecht University School of Governance, The Netherlands)
11. "Whiteness" in the Red Tent: Exploring Gender and Race in Women's Circles in the UK, Madeleine Castro (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
12. Performing Muslimness: Proximity and Visibility in the Italian Space, *Letteria G. Fassari (Sapienza University, Italy) and Gioia Pompili (Independent Scholar, Italy)*
    RELATIONSHIPS AND INSTITUTIONS
13. Discourses of Gender, Religion and National Security in the Legal Mediation of Citizenship: A Case Study from India, Anukriti Dixit (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Samar (Independent Scholar)
14. Performing the Maternal Role in a Foreign Land: Migrant Mothering as Spiritual Practice, Ma. Adeinev M. Reyes-Espiritu (KU Leuven, Belgium)
15. Motherhood, Religion and Feminism: Colonial Encounters, Intersectional Identities, Jessica A. Albrecht (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
16. Silenced and Overemphasized: Positionings of LGBTQ+ People in Orthodox Christian communities in the US, Romania, and Finland, Talvikki Ahonen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Pekka Metso (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) , Grant S. White (Sankt Ignatios College, Stockholm) and Tuukka Tuomasjukka (Finland)
17. Self-Work as a Moral Project: Gender, Faith, and Therapeutic Authority in Marriage Preparation and Reentry Programs, Courtney Ann Irby (Illinois Wesleyan University, USA) and Cesraéa Rumpf (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)
18. Procreation, Legitimated Adultery and Ancestorship: Exploring Issues of Systemic Patriarchy in African Cultures, *Elvis Imafidon (SOAS University of London, UK)*
    TEXTS AND OBJECTS
19. Indigenous Transgender Visual Sovereignty: From Little Big Man (1970) to Drunktown's Finest (2014), Gabriel S. Estrada (California State University Long Beach, USA)
20. "Black and Beautiful": Womanist Theology, Love-Politics, and the Song of Songs, Duc Dau (The University of Western Australia, Australia)
21. Women's Intimate Bodywork and Spirituality: Sexual-Spiritual Objects of Self-Pleasure and Material Religion, Florence Pasche-Guignard (Université Laval, Canada)
22. Re-Gendering Sutartines: Women's Disempowerment, Interpretation, and the Performance of Lithuanian Pagan Music, Egle Aleknaite (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
23. Decolonizing Arabo-Islamic Feminist Scholarship: A Theoretical Exploration of the Work of Olfa Youssef, Lana Sirri (*University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)*
    Index