Snowdon Ria - Queering religion : religious queers

The book sets itself the certainly difficult but fascinating task of combining what has been so far discussed as largely antagonistic categoriesreligion and sexual orientation. It does so eloquently, fulfilling a gap in the academic literature, as well as responding to a political and ethical need to engage with difference and intersections along the complex spectrum of identity.

Ana Cristina Santos, University of Coimbra, Portugal

The social and spatial accommodation of both religious and sexual identities has become a significant political flashpoint for societies and their governments in the contemporary West and beyond. This important collection addresses the intersections of religious and sexual identities for individuals, religious institutions, and socio-legal systems. Collectively, the chapters explore these intersections across a breadth of belief systems and geographical contexts. The authors ask vital questions about methodologies, institutions, locations and intersecting affirmations. This collection will be of interest to scholars, teachers, students and policy-makers concerned with understanding the varied landscapes, tensions and accommodations arising from the intersections of religion and sexuality.

Andrew Gorman-Murray, University of Western Sydney, Australia

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 (UK, Europe, USA, CND, AUS, Global South): contradictions are both privately and publically inhabited in the context of legislative change and increasing, but often competing, socio-legal recognition. 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. 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.

Yvette Taylor is Professor in Social and Policy Studies and Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research, London South Bank University, UK. She has held a Fulbright Scholarship at Rutgers University (20102011). Her books include Fitting into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities (2012); Lesbian and Gay Parenting (2009); and Working-Class Lesbian Life: Classed Outsiders (2007).

Ria Snowdon is a Research Associate, working alongside Yvette Taylor on an ESRC funded project Making Space for Queer Identifying Religious Youth. She completed her Arts and Humanities Research Council PhD at Newcastle University. In 2003 she received the Henry Croucher Memorial Prize in History.

Routledge Studies in Religion

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8 Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy

Arthur Bradley

9 Law and Religion

Edited by Peter Radan, Denise Meyerson and Rosalind F. Atherton

10 Religion, Language, and Power

Edited by Nile Green and Mary Searle-Chatterjee

11 Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols, and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia

Edited by Kelly Pemberton and Michael Nijhawan

12 Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics

From Creatio Ex Nihilo to Terra

Nullius Whitney Bauman

13 Material Religion and Popular Culture

E. Frances King

14 Adam Smith as Theologian

Edited by Paul Oslington

15 The Entangled God

Divine Relationality and Quantum Physics

By Kirk Wegter-McNelly

16 Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy

A Critical Inquiry

Paul J. DeHart

17 Animal Ethics and Theology

The Lens of the Good Samaritan

Daniel K. Miller

18 The Origin of Heresy

A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity

Robert M. Royalty, Jr.

19 Buddhism and V iolence

Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia

Edited by Vladimir Tikhonov and Torkel Brekke

20 Popular Music in Evangelical Youth Culture

Stella Sai-Chun Lau

21 Theology and the Science of Moral Action

Virtue Ethics, Exemplarity, and Cognitive Neuroscience

Edited by James A. Van Slyke, Gregory R. Peterson, Kevin S. Reimer, Michael L. Spezio, and Warren S. Brown

22 Abrogation in the Quran and Islamic Law

By Louay Fatoohi

23 A New Science of Religion

Edited by Gregory W. Dawes and James Maclaurin

24 Making Sense of the Secular

Critical Perspectives from Europe to Asia

Edited by Ranjan Ghosh

25 The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics

Extraordinary Movement

C. S. Monaco

26 Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality

Ethnographic Approaches

Anna Fedele and Kim E. Knibbe

27 Religions in Movement

The Local and the Global in Contemporary Faith Traditions

Robert W. Hefner, John Hutchinson, Sara Mels and Christiane Timmerman

28 William Jamess Hidden Religious Imagination

A Universe of Relations

Jeremy Carrette

29 Theology and the Arts

Engaging Faith

Ruth Illman and W. Alan Smith

30 Religion, Gender, and the Public Sphere

Edited by Niamh Reilly and Stacey Scriver

31 An Introduction to Jacob Boehme

Four Centuries of Thought and Reception

Edited by Ariel Hessayon and Sarah Apetrei

32 Globalization and Orthodox Christianity

The Transformations of a Religious Tradition

Victor Roudometof

33 Contemporary Jewish Writing

Austria after Waldheim

Andrea Reiter

34 Religious Ethics and Migration

Doing Justice to Undocumented Workers

Ilsup Ahn

35 A Theology of Community Organizing

Power to the People

Chris Shannahan

36 God and Natural Order

Physics, Philosophy, and Theology

Shaun C. Henson

37 Science and Religion

One Planet, Many Possibilities

Edited by Lucas F. Johnston and Whitney A. Bauman

38 Queering Religion, Religious Queers

Edited by Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon

Edited by Yvette Taylor and Ria Snowdon

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