Stephen Hunt

Religion and LGBTQ Sexualities

Critical Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

This compiled and edited collection provides perspectives from a wide range of interdisciplinary fields on the debates around LGBTQ sexualities and religion/spirituality. The essays draw attention to aspects of religiosity that shape the lived experiences of LGBTQ people, represent the search of sexual minorities for spiritual 'safe spaces' in both

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 754
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 169mm
• Gewicht: 1390g
• ISBN-13: 9781032917597
• ISBN-10: 1032917598
• Artikelnr.: 71666064

Autorenporträt

Stephen Hunt is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of the West of England, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction. Part I Discourses and Discontents: The
centrality of marriage: homosexuality and the Roman Catholic argument,
James P. Hanigan; Homosexuality and the construction of 'Anglican
Orthodoxy': the symbolic politics of the Anglican Communion, Christopher
Craig Brittain and Andrew McKinnon; Towards a queer dharmology of sex,
Roger Corless; The politics of counter-rejection: gay Christians and the
church, Andrew K.T. Yip; Doing queer theology in The Garden: Derek Jarman
and Christianity, Stephen Carr. Part II Managing the Queer Self in
Conventional Christianity: 'Abomination' - life as a Bible Belt gay,
Bernadette Barton; Negotiating a religious identity: the case of the gay
Evangelical, Scott Thumma; 'Fag church': men who integrate gay and
Christian identities, Gerald Walton; 'The priest obviously doesn't know
that I'm gay': the religious and spiritual journeys of Latino gay men,
Dalia I. García, Jennifer Gray-Stanley and Jesus Ramirez-Valles;
Homophobia, hypermasculinity and the US black church, Elijah G. Ward; The
gift (?) that dare not speak its name: exploring the influence of sexuality
on the professional performances of gay male Anglican clergy, Michael
Keenan; Identities within identities: queering the priestly woman, Gayle R.
Baldwin. Part III Managing the Queer Self in Judaism and Islam: Being gay
and Jewish: negotiating intersecting identities, Randal F. Schnoor; Between
'being' and 'doing': conflict and coherence in the identity formation of
gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews, Tova Hartman Halbertal with Irit Koren;
Bridging the divide: integrating lesbian identity and Orthodox Judaism,
Judith M. Glassgold; The quest for intimate/sexual citizenship: lived
experiences of lesbian and bisexual Muslim women, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip; 'I
don't want to taint the name of Islam': the influence of religion on the
lives of Muslim lesbians, Asifa Siraj; Between religion and desire: being
Muslim and gay in Indonesia, Tom Boellstorff; 'Out to get us': queer
Muslims and the clash of sexual civilisations in Australia, Ibrahim
Abraham. Part IV LGBTQ Affirming Environments: The homosexual subculture at
worship: a participant observation study, Paul F. Bauer; 'The inherent
worth and dignity': gay Unitarians and the birth of sexual tolerance in
liberal religion, Mark Oppenheimer; The homosexual church: an
ecclesiastical extension of a subculture, Ronald M. Enroth; Observations on
the corporate culture of a gay and lesbian congregation, W. Bernard
Lukenbill; Gay and lesbian Christians: homosexual and religious identity
integration in the members and participants of a gay-positive church, Eric
M. Rodriguez and Suzanne C. Ouellette; Identity experience among
progressive gay Muslims in North America: a qualitative study within
Al-Fatiha, Omar Minwalla, B.R. Simon Rosser, Jamie Feldman and Christine
Varga; A new generation of lesbian Jewish activism, Rebecca E. Margolis.
Part V 'Fringe' Religiosity: Calamus in Bolton: spirituality and homosexual
desire in late Victorian England, Harry Cocks; Queering the Dragonfest:
changing sexualities in a post-patriarchal religion, Mary Jo Neitz; When
Pan met Wendy: gendered membership debates among the radical faeries, John
A. Stover; New Age spiritualities: Findhorn and the sexual self, Kath
Browne with Elizabeth Dinnie; Angels and the dragon king's daughter:
gender, sexuality in Western Buddhist new religious movements, Sally R.
Munt and Sharon E. Smith; Is it meaningful to speak of 'queer
spirituality'? An examination of queer and LGBT imagery and themes in
contemporary Paganism and Christianity, Yvonne Aburrow. Part VI Spiritual
Paths: Queer theologies as transgressive metaphors: new paradigms for
hybrid sexual theologies, Robert E. Goss; A queer kind of faith: religion
and spirituality in lesbian, gay and bisexual New Zealanders, Mark
Henrickson; When Sheila's a lesbian: religious individualism among lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender Christians, Melissa M. Wilcox; Queering the
sacred: discourses of gay male spiritual writing, Donald L. Boisvert; A
bisexual feminist spirituality, Barbara Gibson; Faith-based queer space in
Washington, DC: the Metropolitan Community Church-DC and Mount Vernon
Square, Jenell Williams Paris and Rory E. Anderson. Name index.