Religion prohibits and regulates, condemns and blesses, punishes and rewards. No more so than in the realm of sex. Your sexual partner, marital status, the colour of your skin, your religion or caste are all factors that can lead to redemption or perdition. Welcome to the sexual universe of religion. In Sex and Religion, Dag istein Endsj takes a close look at religious attitudes to sex in all cultures. While Christian teenage girls promise God that they will relinquish sex until they are married, Buddhist monks call attention to gay sex as a holy mystery. While the Christian church questions a homosexuals place in church, others ask whether there should be a death penalty for heterosexual sex, whether promiscuity leads to hurricanes and nuclear war, whether God condemns marriage between black and white and why some religious sex rules are emphasized while others are forgotten.
