Non/Normative Faith - Queering Religious Scripts, Politics, Practices, and Institutions

This is anthology brings together scholarly studies, creative writing, and images to critically discuss, question, and celebrate spirituality and religion from a queer perspective. The chapters closely analyse religious practices, scriptures, and institutions from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. They discuss religious teaching and care as spaces for queer community, showcasing the many ways in which queer identities, critiques, and lifestyles intersect with religion across geographies and histories. They also focus on the nexus between state, market, and religious institutions. The book looks at how queer people experience religion and spirituality around the world. It challenges the idea that religion and spirituality are separate from each other and shows how they affect people's lives. It also looks at how social science and humanities-oriented queer studies can be changed to include religion and spirituality.

List of contents

Contents: Katharina Wiedlack and Tegiye Birey: Introduction - Queer-Flexibility of Religions - Lamya H: Not Your Tragic Queer Muslim Story - Chao-Hwei Shih (Trans. by Chen Xiong-cai): Buddhist Perspective of «Homosexual Love» - Elazar Ben-Lulu (Trans. by Merav Datan): Identity, Gender, and Performance: An Ethnographic View of a Queer Purim Celebration in a Reform Jewish Congregation - Peter-Ben Smit: Queering and Queerness in the Prologue of Mark's Gospel: Time, Space and Matter - Amaqhawekazi Emafini Malamlela: Trumu Fetish - The Shrine - Bearing Witness to the Production of Religious Heteronormativities - Vinod Kumar: Sexless Bachelors, Monogamous Couples, and Promiscuous Kings in Ancient India - Bee Scherer: Buddhist Perspectives on LGBTIQ+ Mental Distress and Suicidality - Hsiao-Lan Hu: Multiply Queered, Singularly Queered, Victimhood, and Spiritual Growth - Leonardo J Raznovich: Facing the Holy See: Documenting LGBTI Criminalisation in the Caribbean and How British Judges Require Compliance with Degrading and Inhumane Colonial Laws - Evren Savci: Subjects of Rights and Subjects of Cruelty - Katharina Wiedlack and Iain Zabolotny: A Remote Corner of Russia? Anglophone Media, Anti-Queer Violence «Elsewhere», and Its Western Signifiers - Janet Melville-Wiseman: Elusive Tensions in Everyday Relationship-Based Social Work Practice: Exploring the Challenges for Social Work Education at the Interface between Religion and Sexuality - Katrin Burja: «Queer anthropology of ambiguity» with Respect to Paul Tillich as a Fundamental Precondition of Performativity in a Systemic Pastoral-Care-Conversation - Queers and Ethics in Social Structures - Jen Kaighin: The Day Jaimie Came to Class: A Critical Reflection on Creating Queer Learning Spaces - Dan Thorpe: Disability: Contemporary Realities to Imagined Futures - Ricardo Henry Dias Rohm, Claudia Cristina Nunes Emidio Gonçalves, Carine Morrot de Oliveira Villasanti and Natália Fonseca Lopes: A Case Study of Transgender Individuals Entering/ Joining the Job Market in the City of Rio de Janeiro.

About the author

KATHARINA WIEDLACK is Assistant Professor for Anglophone Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. Her research interests are transnational American studies, queer and feminist theory, and popular culture among others. Her monograph 'Queer-feminist Punk: an Anti-Social History' was published in 2015 by the queer-feminist publisher Zaglossus. She combines her academic research, and teaching with her queer feminist activism, art and community organizing. American encounters, and the mobilization of values and identities.
TEGIYE BIREY is a PhD Candidate in Gender Studies at Central European University and Utrecht University. Her PhD dissertation is an ethnography of the asylum movement in Malmö between 2017 and 2018 from the perspective of coalitional feminisms. She is the author of the article 'Devising Conviviality: Intersubjective Becoming through the Labor of Community-Building' and co-editor of the volume 'Challenging the Political Across Borders: Migrants' and Solidarity Struggles' and often facilitates discussions on migration activism and gender studies. She is currently part of the organizing team of 'Closet Demonstrations: An Exhibition on Queer In_visibilities' (Vienna, November 2023).
PATRICK DE VRIES is a queer activist, photographer and artist. A vital Queering Paradigms associate of the first hour, de Vries was the assistant editor of 'QP 7 Contested Bodies and Spaces' (2018). He holds an MSc in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and a PhD in Computational Biology from the University of Kent, United Kingdom.

Product details

• Assisted by: Tegiye Birey (Editor), Patrick de Vries (Editor), Bee Scherer (Editor), Katharina Wiedlack (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2025
• EAN: 9781803743653
• ISBN: 978-1-80374-365-3
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 21 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 547 g
• Illustrations: 10 Abb.
• Series: Queering Paradigms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works