Queer Thriving in Religious Schools - Encountering Religious Texts, Values, and Rituals

This book offers an account of religious schooling committed to 'queer-thriving' and envisions how queer staff and students can live their lives without being 'accommodated' within heteronormative religious traditions.

List of contents

1. On positionality and purpose 2. Why queer thriving? 3. Queer encounters with religious texts 4. Queer encounters with religious values 5. Queer encounters with religious rituals 6. Desire and the archipelago: Encountering resistance to queer thriving 7. Queer thriving in religious schools: Tracing the (im)possible?

About the author

Seán Henry is Lecturer in Education at the Department of Secondary and Further Education, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom.

Product details

• Authors: Seán Henry, Sean (Technological University Dublin Henry
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032376370
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3237637-0
• No. of pages: 138
• Series: Routledge Research in Religion and Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Educational strategies & policy, Faith (religious) schools, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Types / Religious, Relating to LGBTQIA+ people