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Queer Women and Religious Individualism

Autor Melissa M. Wilcox
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2009
Melissa M. Wilcox explores the complex spiritual lives of queer women in the Los Angeles area. She takes the reader on a tour of a colourful array of religious and secular groups that serve as spiritual resources for these women--from the well-known Metropolitan Community Churches to Wiccan covens, from the Gay and Lesbian Sierrans to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Arguing that these women's stories are exemplary cases of postmodern patterns of religious identity, belief, and practice, Wilcox offers a nuanced analysis of contemporary Western spirituality and selfhood, and a detailed exploration of the history of queer religious organizing in Los Angeles. Queer Women and Religious Individualism is important reading for scholars in religious studies, sociology, women's studies, and LGBT studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253221162
ISBN-10: 0253221161
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 1 map
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments; Map of Los Angeles1. Beyond the Congregation; 2. Setting the Stage: Historical Contexts; 3. Queering the Spiritual Marketplace; 4. Negotiating Religion: Continuity, Conversion, Innovation; 5. Tiles in the Mosaic: Organizations as Resources; 6. Building a Mosaic: The Sacred (and the) Self; 7. Queer Women, Religion, and PostmodernityAppendix A. Biographical Summaries ; Appendix B. Methods and Methodological Considerations; Appendix C. Interview Schedules; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

"In this volume Wilcox explores her findings of a survey of women conducted in the Los Angeles area, investigating female sexual variations in relation to religion and spirituality....The volume usefully concludes with biographical summaries and methodological considerations." Stephen hunt, Religion and Gender
"Original research into areas that have not been much investigated or written about. . . . A rather masterful user of [theory], Wilcox is especially interested in taking the idea of 'intersectionality' . . . And using it as a theoretical reminder that one must represent women in their clearest life contexts of race, gender, community, economics, physical and emotional resources, etc., as well as the individual power they muster to create their own religious lives." Leonard Primiano, Cabrini College

Notă biografică

Melissa M. Wilcox

Descriere

Spiritual, queer, and community identity in 21st-century America