Affective entanglements with the sexual imagery of paradise in the Qur’an

This paper examines affective structures and power formations that are constructed, maintained or contested when the significance of the sexual imagery of paradise in the Qur’an is divided into sensual and spiritual. I take a fictional story by Mohja Kahf as an example of a Qur’an commentary that ce...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: The Qur'an and affect
Main Author: Tourage, Mahdi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publishing [2019]
In: Body and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-70
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Koran / Paradise / Imagery / Sensuality / Allegory
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
BJ Islam
NBQ Eschatology
Further subjects:B Islam
B Quran
B Sexuality
B paradise affect theory
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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