BODIES AT THE MARGINS: The Case of Transsexuality in Catholic and Shia Ethics
This essay explores the ways in which emerging religious understandings of sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) have potential for new work in comparative ethics. I focus on the startling diversity of teachings on transsexuality among the Vatican and leading Shia clerics in Iran. While the Vatican reje...
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Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2010
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2010, Volume: 38, Issue: 4, Pages: 601-615 |
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Shia Islam
B Iran B Sex B transsexuality B Catholicism B Gender B comparative ethics |
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