Janet R. Jakobsen
Forfatter af Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance
Om forfatteren
Janet R. Jakobsen is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Religious Studies and Co-Coordinator of the Committee for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies at the University of Arizona
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Værker af Janet R. Jakobsen
Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics (1998) 12 eksemplarer
The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics (Sexual Cultures, 55) (2020) 5 eksemplarer
Barnard Center for Research on Women Newsletter 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion) (2011) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
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- Dartmouth College (AB|Philosophy, Economics)
Claremont School of Theology (MA)
Emory University (PhD|Ethics and Society) - Erhverv
- Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women (Barnard College, Columbia University) - Relationer
- Crosby, Christina (partner)
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- Barnard College, Columbia University
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However! It’s still a good book! Since it is essentially about argumentative structure, the specific examples aren’t so important. The essential thesis is that sex (and morality in general) are too linked with Protestant Christianity in the US. It’s so deeply embedded that even many Christians don’t realize they’re operating on that basis, they think they’re being secular. Jakobsen and Pellegrini argue for more sexual freedom and more religious freedom, making “freedom” a positive right. The current structure, which Jakobsen and Pellegrini term “tolerance,” has the dominant culture being exhorted to “tolerate” difference, which still sets up an unequal hierarchy. Instead, all people should be free to practice whatever religion they choose, and all people should be free to pursue the sexual practices they choose, (excepting harm to others of course). The authors explain that “freedom” does not mean the absence of ethics, but it allows for a truly democratic discussion of those ethics, and allows people to be legitimately equal. They go much, much deeper into this and various related issues, and it’s all fascinating.
There’s a lot of interesting stuff here, especially if you’ve been involved in any kind of social activism in the US. It’s a way of defending sexual freedom that you may agree with and be able to use if you’re an LGBT advocate, and the argument easily extends to other social issues. I’ve heard some of their arguments before, like how the government shouldn’t be regulating marriages at all, but I think their full-fledged position deserves more attention. Despite my repeated use of the word “academic,” it’s quite a short book. Finally, I should mention that despite the title, they’re not anti-Christian at all. Here’s a paragraph from page 61 that I think best describes what it’s all about:
"If we were to move outside the framework of tolerance to a framework of freedom, we would be able to stand up for the victims of homophobic violence whether or not we thought homosexuality was a sin. It would be possible for those who believed that homosexuality is a sin to embrace the religious freedom of those who thought otherwise. This stance is not the tolerance of loving the sinner and hating the sin. It is the democracy of religious freedom in which one group’s idea of sin does not limit the freedom of those who believe and practice differently, in which laws are based on democratic processes, not on particular religious beliefs."
I don’t know about you, but I think that sounds nice.
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