Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays
Pray the Gay Away is the product of six years of ethnographic research on the lives and experiences of gays living in the “Bible Belt” of the United States. Through utilizing a variety of qualitative methods and placing herself in various contexts and situations (a creation museum, a megachurch, an...
| Published in: | Sociology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2013
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Sociology of religion
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| Review of: | Pray the gay away (New York [u.a.] : New York Univ. Press, 2012) (Whitehead, Andrew L.)
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| Summary: | Pray the Gay Away is the product of six years of ethnographic research on the lives and experiences of gays living in the “Bible Belt” of the United States. Through utilizing a variety of qualitative methods and placing herself in various contexts and situations (a creation museum, a megachurch, an ex-gay rally), Barton weaves a remarkable account. At its core, Pray the Gay Away examines the intersection of religiosity, region, and sexual identity. It illustrates the oppression, discrimination, exile, and silencing that Bible Belt gays experience within a religiously based homophobic context and how Bible Belt gays respond to these institutional and individual manifestations of suppression and oppression. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srt016 |