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What role do religious narratives play in the elevated rates of suicide attempt among LGBTQ people? Taking a narrative approach to first-person accounts, this book addresses the potential violence of theological narratives upon queer souls and contributes to constructive methods of intervention toward the livability of life for queer people.
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1God, Stories, and Queer Souls
Chapter 2Troubled Stories, Best Hopes, Precarious Survival
Chapter 3Theological Ambush
Chapter 4Soul Violence
Chapter 5Religious Resistance
Chapter 6Holding One's Own
Chapter 7Revisioning the Care of Souls
Conclusion Constructive Lessons for Practices of Care
Bibliography
About the Author
Info autore
Cody J. Sanders is American Baptist chaplain to Harvard University, advisor for LGBTQ+ affairs in the Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and pastor to Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Cambridge, MA.
Riassunto
What role do religious narratives play in the elevated rates of suicide attempt among LGBTQ people? Taking a narrative approach to first-person accounts, this book addresses the potential violence of theological narratives upon queer souls and contributes to constructive methods of intervention toward the livability of life for queer people.
