One of the most current issues occupying both public and academic discourse is sexuality and the related issues of sexual self-determination, gender order, and homophobia. Religion has a significant role to play in this discourse. This centrality of religion is evident not only in the question of moral concepts, but also in questions of the understanding of the body and gender. In this context, it should be emphasized that religion - or, more precisely, a particular interpretation of the religious - can have both a conflict-promoting and an emancipatory effect. If one wants to conceptualize a contemporary theological understanding, then it is necessary to receive medical, psychological as well as social and cultural science research. The anthology aims to thematize these debates and to broaden the view for the multi-layered processes of change taking place in the discourses.

Fahimah Ulfat is Professor of Islamic Religious Education at the Center for Islamic Theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Ali Ghandour is a research assistant at the Center for Islamic Theology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

Metaphysics of Eroticism: Sex and Gender as Principles of Ontology in Ibn al-Arab (d. 1240).- Decolonize Your Body.- Against Homosexuality: Patriarchal Islam, US Muslims, and Religious Debate.- LGBTTQI* as Part of the Muslim Community.- Nothing Left to Save: On the Collapse of the Catholic Sexuality Dispositif.- Gender Justice and Religion in Muslim Theological Discourses and in the Social Reality of Young Muslim* Women in Germany: a Religious Education Challenge .- How Diverse are Eve and Adam? Gender, Religion and (Western) Modernity.