Queering spirituality and community in the deep South / edited by Kamden K. Strunk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strunk, Kamden K., editor.

Series:

Research in queer studies.

Research in queer studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minority community--Southern States.

Sexual minority community.

Sexual minorities--Relgious life--Southern States.

Sexual minorities.

Homosexuality--Social aspects--Southern States.

Homosexuality.

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Spirituality--Southern States.

Spirituality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 210 pages).

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc, [2019]

Summary:

In this volume, authors explore the interconnected issues of spirituality and community as they relate to queer issues in the Deep South. The book begins with explorations of queer spiritualities and LGBTQ people in religious settings. Next, authors investigate and document the rise of the religious right political movement in the South. Finally, the authors of this text document community life for LGBTQ people in the Deep South, including efforts to create affirming queer spaces inside otherwise hostile locales.Through the chapters in this text, the peculiarities of spirituality and community life for LGBTQ people in the Deep South are explored. However, this volume also points to trends, themes, and dynamics at work in the Deep South that are also implicated in the queer experience in other parts of the U.S. The authors of this text push readers to think deeply about these issues, probe the limits of queer potentialities in Southern religious and community contexts, and clearly point to the interweaving of Christian religiousness, communities of practice, the operation of white supremacist heteropatriarchy in oppression of LGBTQ people, and the possibilities of affirming spiritual and community praxis.

Contents:

Introduction : queering spirituality and community in the deep South / Kamden K. Strunk

Queer spiritualities

Spiritual practices in the deep South : queer theory and the African diaspora / Jacob W. Glazier

Deconstructing and reconstructing queer spirituality in the South : intersectionality as a means from the micro to the macro / Christian D. Chan and Philip F. Daniels

At a crossroads : growing up Christian and queer in the South / Denise L. Levy

Queer analysis of the religious right and Anita Bryant

'We've had it with Anita's brand' : southern lesbian feminists' response to the 1977 Save Our Children Crusade / Hillary R. Anderson

From orange juice to the ballot box : media coverage of Anita Bryant's rise and fall in the early religious-right movement / Robert D. Byrd Jr., Melissa Janoske, and Audrey Chaney

Queer communities : development and lived experiences

Gay liberation has arrived : identity and community in Lafayette, Louisiana, 1968-1981 / Daniel Manuel

Welcome to Pensacola, USA's gay riviera : beach parties, moral panics, and the making of a queer capital / Jerry Watkins

From James Booker to big freedia and back again : black queer expression, agency and potentiality / Elyse Ambrose and Benae Beamon

Intersecting identities : life histories of black gay males growing up in the South, in the 'black gay mecca' / Michael D. Bartone

It's hard, but it's home : on living in the deep South / Melanie M. Lantz, Sarah A. McConnell, Brittan L. Davis, and Emily Burish

Conclusion / Kamden K. Strunk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-64113-575-1