Robertson Alison
Robertson Alison - Play Pain And Religion Creating Gestalt Through Kink Encounter - Paperback
Robertson Alison - Play Pain And Religion Creating Gestalt Through Kink Encounter - Paperback
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Description: Play Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (bondage domination sadism and masochism) in the context of religious studies scholarship. The focus is an exploration of BDSM experience as it emerges from the complex interactions of kink activities and relationship. Experiences categorised by BDSM practitioners as 'religious and 'spiritual are commonly described in the same terms and given the same value as descriptions of experiences which are not so categorised. Play Pain and Religion examines practitioner accounts of BDSM experience alongside those practitioners personal identification with these terms. This book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but in subsequent constructions around the nature and meaning of the event. It examines some such constructions moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process of meaning - world - and story - making. By using this 'religioning framework this book examines ways in which BDSM can potentially be used in such processes. Play Pain and Religion is a valuable resource for scholars of religion and of kink for people interested in the complexities of ascribing meaning and value to human behaviour and for kinksters interested in their own kink and why it is they do what they do.
Title: Play Pain And Religion Creating Gestalt Through Kink Encounter
Author(s): Robertson Alison
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Barcode: 9781800500297
Pages: 222 Pages, 14 Figures
Publication Date: 7/18/2021
Category: Religion & Beliefs
Description: Play Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (bondage domination sadism and masochism) in the context of religious studies scholarship. The focus is an exploration of BDSM experience as it emerges from the complex interactions of kink activities and relationship. Experiences categorised by BDSM practitioners as 'religious and 'spiritual are commonly described in the same terms and given the same value as descriptions of experiences which are not so categorised. Play Pain and Religion examines practitioner accounts of BDSM experience alongside those practitioners personal identification with these terms. This book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but in subsequent constructions around the nature and meaning of the event. It examines some such constructions moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process of meaning - world - and story - making. By using this 'religioning framework this book examines ways in which BDSM can potentially be used in such processes. Play Pain and Religion is a valuable resource for scholars of religion and of kink for people interested in the complexities of ascribing meaning and value to human behaviour and for kinksters interested in their own kink and why it is they do what they do.
Title: Play Pain And Religion Creating Gestalt Through Kink Encounter
Author(s): Robertson Alison
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Barcode: 9781800500297
Pages: 222 Pages, 14 Figures
Publication Date: 7/18/2021
Category: Religion & Beliefs
