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1. Sexual Ethics – Premium Paper Help
Religion, Sex, and Gender: Unlikely Bedfellows? Religion is often thought to be at odds with
claims about gender, sex, and sexuality – regarding free sexual expression or choices, the
exercise of sexual/gender rights, and the flourishing of people who are marginalised in
some way by their gender or sexuality.However, as we have seen throughout this last
section of the course, religion and religious discourses are often used both personally and
politically (e.g. by those who are NOT in positions of established authority within the
religious tradition) to assert rights, freedoms, and demands which relate to gender and
sexuality. We have seen how religion and religious discourses provide ways for people to
articulate and fight for these rights/freedoms/demands (or even to reframe the question of
rights and freedoms entirely, which Mahmood seems to suggest we could do); we have
explored the relationship between sexual and religious freedom in law to consider how
asserting religious freedom does not historically and legally entail denying sexual freedom;
and we have looked at women’s roles in religious traditions and rituals that don’t
necessarily incite patriarchal gender divides. For this blog, select two examples from this
section of the course (From the attached readings) to argue this point: that although the
relationship between religion, gender, and sexuality is often understood as a negative or
repressive one, religious discourses can also be used to bolster and support gender and
sexual freedoms, needs, or aspirations. You may interpret, adapt, or extend this question to
encompass your own ideas, and you should refine your thesis statement in relation to the
sources you have chosen and the direction you are taking. *use a minimum of three
academic sources for your argument, two of which must come from the assigned course
readings. Additional sources may come from other courses at McGill or from your own
outside research. *You must also include some sort of creative element in your blog: an
image that supports your argument or helps situate it, OR a link to a different source such as
news, comment, or culture, OR a video/ sound clip. You may, of course, use more than one of
these – but not as a replacement for one of the three required academic sources. *The
outline should include the following components: tentative title for the blog a clear and
concisely stated main idea / thesis an outline of the argument being made to support your
main idea a list of the minimum three academic sources you will draw upon for this
assignment (at least 2 academic texts from the course). *Readings; * Collins, Steven. “The
body in Theravada Buddhist monasticism.” Religion and the Body. ed. Sarah Coakley.
Cambridge University Press, 1997. *Laidlaw, James. Riches and Renunciation: Religion,
Economy, and Society among the Jains. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. pp. 1-7; 151-172

2. *Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Theorizing Resurgence from within Nishnaabeg
Thought,” Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and
a New Emergence (Winnipeg: Arneiter Ring Pub., 2011), 31-48 *Saba Mahmood, ‘Agency,
Gender, and Embodiment” Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist
Subject(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012), 153-188