Play, Pain and Religion
Creating Gestalt through Kink Encounter
Alison Robertson [+–]
The Open University
Alison Robertson recently completed her PhD in Religious Studies at The Open University.
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Chapter 2
Setting the Scene [+–]
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Chapter 3
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Chapter 4
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Chapter 5
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Chapter 6
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Chapter 7
Kinky Bodies [+–]
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Chapter 8
Exploring the Edge [+–]
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Chapter 9
Kink Ritualizing [+–]
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Chapter 10
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Appendix A
A Kink Glossary [+–]
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
Appendix B
Play, Pain and Religion is the first consideration of the practices associated with BDSM (Bondage, Domination, Submission 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. Beginning with the observation that experiences categorised by practitioners as spiritual are commonly described in the same terms, and given the same value, as experiences which are not so categorised the book argues that the significance of a given experience is not located solely within any intrinsic quality ascribed to it but, rather, it is in what the experiencer subsequently constructs from the refined experience. It examines some such constructions, moving away from absolute definitions of religion or religions to consider the religious as an active process with which individuals find their own means to engage and presenting BDSM as one such means of engagement.
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Publication
01/05/2021
Pages
224
Size
234 x 156mm
Readership
scholars
Illustration
12 figures
