Joy Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joy Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joy |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1209-2016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Maude Royden (1876–1956) and the ‘Sacrament of Love’
The article explores Maude Royden’s distinctively modern sexual theology which – via the ‘sacrament of love’ – puts monogamous, reproductive, heterosexual sex at the heart of her understanding of both modernist theology and modern Christian life, and also her own later critique of that position
Religion, Science, and the Remaking of Illicit Sexuality
Religion, Science, and the Remaking of Illicit Sexuality. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 32, numéro 2, 2022, p. 1-166) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Thoughts are Things”
THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY has a long history of intersections with the academic study of religion. Its “Second Object”—“to encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science” (Dixon 2001, 4) —plunged Theosophists into many (often acrimonious) debates with both scholars and believers. Although the Theosophical Society had no dogmas, it developed a version of the “divine wisdom” that Theosophists claimed contained the “the esoteric…
Feminism and Secularization
Both Laura Schwartz’s Infidel Feminism and Lesley Hall’s The Life and Times of Stella Browne are books about the history of feminism and freethought, but both of them also contribute in crucial ways – both implicitly and explicitly – to ongoing debates over the history of religion in modern Britain and the revision of what has come to be known as the ‘secularization thesis’. Secularization – understood here as a political project rather than as a…
Sexual politics in the Church of England
In this fascinating account of a century-and-a-half of Anglican sexual and gender politics, Timothy Jones tells a complicated, and often surprising, story. Rejecting simplistic accounts of Christia
Dark Ecstasies’
Rediscovering Christianity after the Postmodern Turn
Bonnie G. Smith — The Gender of History
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Thoughts are Things”
THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY has a long history of intersections with the academic study of religion. Its “Second Object”—“to encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science” (Dixon 2001, 4) —plunged Theosophists into many (often acrimonious) debates with both scholars and believers. Although the Theosophical Society had no dogmas, it developed a version of the “divine wisdom” that Theosophists claimed contained the “the esoteric…
Dark Ecstasies’
Bonnie G. Smith — The Gender of History
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Rediscovering Christianity after the Postmodern Turn
Dark Ecstasies’
Sexual politics in the Church of England
In this fascinating account of a century-and-a-half of Anglican sexual and gender politics, Timothy Jones tells a complicated, and often surprising, story. Rejecting simplistic accounts of Christia
Feminism and Secularization
Both Laura Schwartz’s Infidel Feminism and Lesley Hall’s The Life and Times of Stella Browne are books about the history of feminism and freethought, but both of them also contribute in crucial ways – both implicitly and explicitly – to ongoing debates over the history of religion in modern Britain and the revision of what has come to be known as the ‘secularization thesis’. Secularization – understood here as a political project rather than as a…
Thoughts are Things”
THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY has a long history of intersections with the academic study of religion. Its “Second Object”—“to encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and science” (Dixon 2001, 4) —plunged Theosophists into many (often acrimonious) debates with both scholars and believers. Although the Theosophical Society had no dogmas, it developed a version of the “divine wisdom” that Theosophists claimed contained the “the esoteric…
Maude Royden (1876–1956) and the ‘Sacrament of Love’
The article explores Maude Royden’s distinctively modern sexual theology which – via the ‘sacrament of love’ – puts monogamous, reproductive, heterosexual sex at the heart of her understanding of both modernist theology and modern Christian life, and also her own later critique of that position
Religion, Science, and the Remaking of Illicit Sexuality
Religion, Science, and the Remaking of Illicit Sexuality. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 32, numéro 2, 2022, p. 1-166) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment (3 works)