Queering Religion, Religious Queers

ISBN-13: 9780415843881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 296 str.

Yvette Taylor; Ria Snowdon

Opis

This collection considers how religious identity interplays with other forms and contexts of identity, specifically those related to sexual identity. It asks how these intersections are formed, negotiated and resisted across time and places, including the UK, Europe, North America, Australia, and the Global South. Questions around 'queer' engagements in same-sex marriages, civil partnerships and other practices (e.g. adoption) have created a number of provoking stances and policy provisions - but what remains unanswered is how people experience and situate themselves within sometimes competing, or 'contradictory', moments as 'religious queers' who may be tasked with 'queering religion'. Additionally, the presumed paradoxes of 'marriage', queer sexuality, religion and youth combine to generate a noteworthy generational absence. This leads to questions about where 'religious queers' reside, resist and relate experiences of intersecting religious and sexual lives. In looking at interconnectedness, this collection offers international contributions which bridge the 'contradictions' in queering religion and in making visible 'religious queers.' It provides insight into older and younger people's understandings of religiosity, queer cultures, and religious groups. A small but active religious minority in the US has received much attention for its anti-gay political activity; much less attention has been paid to the more positive, supportive role that religious-based groups play in e.g. providing housing, education and political advocacy for queer youth. Queer methodologies and intersectional approaches offer a lens both theoretically and methodologically to uncover the salience of related social divisions and identities. This collection is both innovative and sensitive to 'blended' identities and their various enactments.

Spis treści

Foreword: Outing Religion in LGBT Studies Jodi O'Brien Foreword 2: A Geographical Commentary Andrew Gorman-Murray and Catherine J. Nash Introduction Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon Section 1: Queer Productions, Methods and Occupations 1.Que(e)rying Methodology to Study Church-Based Activism: Conversations in Culture, Power, and Change Karen Macke 2. Queering Secular Jewish Culture(s) Naomi Braine  3. Sexuality, Migration and Identity among Gay Iranian Migrants to the UK Rusi Jaspal  4. Is it Possible to be Queer and Catholic? Overcoming the "Silence of Sodom" Dominic Wetzel Section 2: Queer Contestations: Past, Present, Future 5. Unpacking Queer Secularity: Queer Kids, Schools and Secularism in Toronto, Ontario, Canada David K. Seitz  6. Conversations with God: Reconciling Religious Identities with Sexual Identities among Gay and Bisexual Men in Scotland, 1950-1999 Jeff Meek  7. Queer Travels: Intersections for the Study of Islam, Sexuality, and Queer Theory George Ioannides  8.‘Mindful of the Words Spoken’: The Shifting Narratives and Identity Work of Former Ex-gays S.J. Creek  Section 3: Queer Locations: Centres and Peripheries  9. Sacralizing Queerness: LGBT Faith Movements and Identity Deployment Jason J. Hopkins  10. When Religion Reshapes Identities: Young Moroccan Adults, Sexual Behaviour and Islamic Modernities Vulca Fidolini  11. Islam, Homosexuality and Gay Muslims: Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Sexuality Asifa Siraj  12. Coming Out Under Prohibition: Ordination and Queer Identity in Mainline Protestantism John J. Anderson  Section 4: Queer Affirmations? Keeping the Faith 13. Hidden Desires: Hinduism and Sexuality Shaminder Takhar  14. Complicity and Control in Compositions: Queers Overcoming Victimization in Christian Families Peik Ingman  15. Reconceiving and Recontextualizing Religious Identity: Lesbian Mothers and Transracial Adoption Julie J. Kilmer