Play, Pain and Religion - Creating Gestalt through Kink Encounter - Alison Robertson

Play, Pain and Religion - Creating Gestalt through Kink Encounter - Alison Robertson

Introduction: Processes of Religioning

Play, Pain and Religion - Creating Gestalt through Kink Encounter - Alison Robertson

Alison Robertson [+-]
The Open University
Alison Robertson is a research associate with at the Open University. She is interested in the places where the lines commonly drawn between categories (such as ‘religious’ and ‘non-religious’) become blurred or ambiguous and in how such blurring affects the ways people look at the world. Her research interests, other than kink, include lived and personal religion, edgework, and self-inflicted or positive experiences of pain.

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Establishes a picture of what BDSM is and involves and places BDSM within the category of the religious. Summarizes the chapters of the book.

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Robertson, Alison. Introduction: Processes of Religioning. Play, Pain and Religion - Creating Gestalt through Kink Encounter. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 1-13 Jul 2021. ISBN 9781800500297. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=40001. Date accessed: 26 Apr 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.40001. Jul 2021

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