Words Kill: Sex and the Definition of US Religion
[This paper makes the case that scholars of US religions neglect the relationships between religion and sex, or at least those that exist beyond the spheres of interdiction and, recently, the sexual activities of white evangelical Protestants. This neglect takes shape, I suggest, because of a series...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
2019
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American religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-26 |
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| Summary: | [This paper makes the case that scholars of US religions neglect the relationships between religion and sex, or at least those that exist beyond the spheres of interdiction and, recently, the sexual activities of white evangelical Protestants. This neglect takes shape, I suggest, because of a series of unspoken and largely unquestioned presumptions about religion, sexuality, and the secular. Arguing that scholars' resistance to engaging the intersection of religion and sexual activity except among exoticised "Others" has profound consequences for queer and transgender people after well over a century of pervasive cultural associations between their identities and sex, I urge the field to adhere more closely to the principles of lived religion approaches by taking queer and transgender people at their word when they define something—even something sexual—as religious.] |
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| ISSN: | 2643-9247 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2979/amerreli.1.1.02 |