Religion, Family, and Ritual: The Production of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Outsiders-within

This article analyzes the experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people who attended family weddings in order to understand how outsider-within status can be produced during religious ritual. Though all participants constructed themselves as outsiders relative to religion during wedd...

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Auteur principal: Oswald, Ramona Faith (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: 2001
Dans: Review of religious research
Année: 2001, Volume: 43, Numéro: 1, Pages: 39-50
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Édition parallèle:Non-électronique
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Résumé:This article analyzes the experiences of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people who attended family weddings in order to understand how outsider-within status can be produced during religious ritual. Though all participants constructed themselves as outsiders relative to religion during weddings, only those from religiously conservative families linked their position to family dynamics. Results challenge the idea that rituals necessarily produce a sense of belonging, bring empirical attention to religion as an ongoing family issue for GLBT people, and suggest that religious diversity and liberalism can promote family cohesion.
ISSN:2211-4866
Contient:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3512242