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This book explores the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world by examining legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching. The author illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate.

"This book examines the life and intellectual contributions of three extraordinary black men--Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant - whose experiences and writing helped shape racial, social, and political thought throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world."

Of dreams and night-mares : Vodou women queering the body - Hector Hyppolite èl Même : between queer fetishization and Vodou self-portraiture -- A chronology of queer Lucumí scholarship : degeneracy, ambivalence, transcorporeality -- Lucumí diasporic ethnography : Fran, Cabrera, Lam -- Queer Candomblé scholarship and Dona Flor's S/exua/lity -- Transatlantic waters of Oxalá : Pierre Verger, Mário de Andrade, and Candomblé in Europe

This book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning about the many ways in which religious diversity is manifest in day-to-day life Canada. Each chapter addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with religious diversity in a different realm of social life from families to churches, from education to health care, and from Muslims to atheists. The contributors present key concepts, relevant statistical data and real-life stories from qualitative data. The content of the book is supplemented by links to online learning resources including videos, websites and photo essays