Queering religion, religious queers / edited by Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Yvette, 1978- editor.

Snowdon, Ria, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in religion ; 38.

Routledge studies in religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Homosexuality.

Gay people--Religious life.

Gay people.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 296 pages.

Edition:

1 [edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Taylor & Francis, 2014.

Contents:

SECTION 1: QUEER PRODUCTIONS, METHODS, AND OCCUPATIONS

Que(e)rying Methodology to Study Church-Based Activism: Conversations in Culture, Power, and Change / Karen E. Macke

Queering Secular Jewish Culture(s) / Naomi Braine

Sexuality, Migration and Identity among Gay Iranian Migrants to the UK / Rusi Jaspal

Is it Possible to Be Queer and Catholic? Overcoming the 'Silence of Sodom' / Dominic Wetzel

SECTION 2: QUEER CONTESTATIONS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

Unpacking Queer Secularity: Queer Kids, Schools and Secularism in Toronto, Ontario, Canada / David K. Seitz

Conversations with God: Recording Religious Identities with Sexual Identities among Gay and Bisexual Men in Scotland, 1950-1999 / Jeff Meek

Queer Travels: Intersections for the Study of Islam, Sexuality, and Queer Theory / George Ioannides

'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

Sacralizing Queerness: LGBT Faith Movements and Identity Deployment / Jason J. Hopkins

When Religion Reshapes Identities: Young Moroccan Adults, Sexual Behavior and Islamic Modernities / Vulca Fidolini

Islam, Homosexuality and Gay Muslims: Bridging the Gap between Faith and Sexuality / Asifa Siraj

Coming Out under Prohibition: Ordination and Queer Identity in Mainline Protestantism / John J. Anderson

SECTION 4: AFFIRMATIONS? KEEPING THE FAITH

Hidden Desires: Hinduism and Sexuality / Shaminder Takhar

Complicity and Control in Compositions: Queers Overcoming Victimization in Christian Families / Peik Ingman

Reconceiving and Recontextualizing Religious Identity: Lesbian Mothers and Transracial Adoption / Julie J. Kilmer.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780415843881

041584388X

OCLC:

868427661