My Mother's Sons: Managing Sexuality in Islamic and Christian Communities - Paperback

by Patrick Krayer (Author)

Managing Sexuality in Islamic and Christian Communities

My Mother's Sons provides a thoughtful model for how Western Christian workers can respectfully negotiate sexual boundaries and norms in Muslim contexts. Westerners are inclined to impose their own culturally shaped notions of gender equality and justice on non-egalitarian communities, alienating the very people they are seeking to serve. The author draws on his own research among Pakistani Pashtuns, intercultural theory, and exegesis of Christian and Islamic sacred texts to show that it is possible to work for transformational change without offending those who live within a patriarchal system.

Author Biography

Patrick Krayer is the executive director for Interserve USA. He is passionate about seeing the unengaged and unreached peoples of Asia and the Arab world transformed by encountering Jesus Christ. He and his wife, Joan, lived in South and Central Asia for over twenty-five years. He received his PhD in Intercultural Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2008.