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Drawing on participant observation and more than 100 interviews, Dawne Moon and Theresa W. Tobin show how many LGBTQ+ Christians and their heterosexual/cisgender allies are working to make their families, churches, and communities more inclusive, loving, and just.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Love and Relationships
- Chapter 2: The Complementarian Commandment
- Chapter 3: A Sacrament of Shame: "I Love You, But Hate Your Sin"
- Chapter 4: Healing Through Relationships
- Chapter 5: Becoming an Ally
- Chapter 6: Inside and Outside the Evangelical Bubble: Productive and Destructive Tension
- Chapter 7: Love, Shame, Humility, and Justice
- Index
About the author
Dawne Moon is a qualitative sociologist who has studied religion, gender, sexuality, and people's struggles to define "who we are" for thirty years. The author of
God, Sex, and Politics: Homosexuality and Everyday Theologies, she is Professor in Social and Cultural Sciences and Co-Director of Gender & Sexualities Studies at Marquette University.
Theresa W. Tobin is a philosopher who researches ethical questions around gender, sexuality and religion, emotions, and spiritual violence. She is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University where she also directs the Education Preparedness Program, which creates pathways to higher education for people directly impacted by incarceration.
Summary
Drawing on participant observation and more than 100 interviews, Dawne Moon and Theresa W. Tobin show how many LGBTQ+ Christians and their heterosexual/cisgender allies are working to make their families, churches, and communities more inclusive, loving, and just.
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Moon and Tobin's accessible chronicling of LGBTQ inclusion work within conservative Christian contexts is a compelling, incisive read that commends itself to those in and outside of these spaces-and to any person of conscience working for positive change in our world. With tender fierceness, the authors explore the radical, political dimensions of love, sustainably building an antiracist society, and the meaning of 'repentance' in the original sense of the word (changing one's mind about everything). They credibly build on the contributions of generations of radical thinkers to advance new understandings and synthesize emerging fieldwork and scholarship on religion, trauma, identity, power, and healing. This book is what the authors might call a 'steadfastly humanizing' resource, and I am confident it will prove an invaluable conversation partner to many
