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Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth
Title:
Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth
ISBN:
9781137502599
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Edition:
1st ed. 2016.
Publication Information New:
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2016.
Physical Description:
VIII, 127 p. online resource.
Abstract:
Making Space for Queer-Identifying Religious Youth charts young people's understanding of religion, investigating the experiences, choices and identities of queer - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender - youth involved in inclusive churches. Rather than assume that sexuality and religion, and in this case Christianity, are separate and divergent paths, this book explores how they might mutually and complexly construct one another in times of religious-sexual citizenship. Taylor presents a methodological discussion on the 'public sociology' of religion and sexuality studies, and provides an illustrative focus on substantive fields often separated in disciplinary dis-orientations. These examples illustrate how participation shapes identifications; how marginalization and discrimination are managed; and how religion and sexuality serve as vehicles for various forms of belonging, identification and expression. 'Religion' and 'sexuality' are mutually constructed through gendered spaces, online spaces, and sensory spaces.
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Language:
English