Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2021.1954864
Alex Clare-Young
ABSTRACT Denominational responses to sexuality and gender can lead to the construction of contemporary texts of terror. In this article, I draw on theory around identity, dialogue, and safety, as well as my own lived experience, to examine the creation of, and responses to, texts of terror in three elements of the construction of and response to Living in Love and Faith (2020). Firstly, I highlight the unequal power dynamics of the LLF process’ membership. Secondly, I critique the use, by Christian Concern, of personalizing argument as a tool wielded against both theology and the individuals whose identities they critique. Finally, I argue that a paradigmatic shift is necessary if LGBTQ+ people are to live in hope, rather than fear. Throughout, the ways in which conversation partners perform, signal, and control both identities are considered and critiqued.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-06DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2021.1911291
Rasoul Mohsenzadeh, Mohammad Mostafavi Rad, J. Momeni
ABSTRACT In Iran, White Marriage refers to a couple's living together and having sexu-al relationship through an irreligious, illegal agreement. While Islamic Law considers it fornication, cohabitation is growing common in Tehran. This has brought to question whether Shi'a fiqh (Twelver jurisprudence) should adapt itself to this reality. To that end, we intend to undertake an examina-tion of cohabitation in Shi'a Islamic jurisprudence. We hold that to avoid further decline in relevance, Shi'a fiqh will have to define cohabitation in its intra-discourse terms in such forms as mu'ātāti (unspoken) religious vow, or new alternatives.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2021.1908820
Sam Sanchinel
ABSTRACT I hope to engage in conversation with my mother in establishing a dialogue where I (and the reader) might enter her dream. In doing so, I will refigure the psychoanalytic dream into a Latinx dream rooted in the lived, cotidiano (everyday), experience of being ‘a-cross.’ This experience is further elaborated through a Hispanic Pentecostalism. Secondly, I hope to share my dream and develop the historical lines between my mom’s immigrant experience, and my own Hispanic/Canadian trans experience.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-26DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2021.1872827
Mark A. Levand, Karen M. Ross
ABSTRACT Through the recent history of sexuality education as a field of its own, there have not been many strong, positive rhetorical connections between comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and Catholicism. While other Christian denominations see value in CSE, Catholic opponents of CSE see it as harmful despite the magisterial teachings that support the same core tenants. Current Catholic sexuality curricula fail to address many important components relevant to the sexual lives of the faithful. In this article we discuss the sufficient magisterial and theological support for robust and relevant Holistic Catholic Sexuality Education. We also offer guidelines for holistic sexuality education curricula rooted in Catholic moral theology, using the guiding principles of anthropological justice, moral justice, and social justice.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1868157
S. Aihiokhai
ABSTRACT The contributions of theologians like James Hal Cone and Katie Geneva Canon to the broader theological project of Black liberational theology allows for a rich discourse on what it means to be Black in the world, In doing this, memories of trauma must be engaged head on in ways that they become anamnetic moments for reimagining a new way of being human that is inclusive of all persons, Consequently, this work argues for the reimagination of the Black Church and its theologies that speak to Black experiences in ways that do not reinstate the hegemonic power of Whiteness as a mode of being in the world. Furthermore, the content and hermeneutic spaces shaping Black theology is critiqued with the intent to create a healthy space for the experiences of Black members of the LGBTQ+ community.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-25DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1863746
Kirsty Greenaway-Clarke
ABSTRACT The dominant interpretation of medieval mystical writing associates women with the body and men with an apophatically-inclined spirituality. This is evidenced in the groundbreaking scholarship of Caroline Walker Bynum, which drew attention to the ‘startling significance’ 1 of the body to female forms of piety. However, this article seeks to interrogate and nuance Bynum’s reading of this binary through the writings of Marguerite Porete (1250–1310) and Julian of Norwich (c.1342–c.1416). It also suggests that although a bodily-infused mysticism was a popular trope for women writers, so too was apophaticism and self-annihilation. The first part of the article critically examines the highly apophatic approach of Marguerite Porete and is followed by a feminist response. Apophaticism and feminism are then brought together in the positive body theology of Julian of Norwich, suggesting that her multifarious use of corporeality can – and should – be a paradigm for today.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-03DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1854039
C. Aldridge
ABSTRACT Augustine’s sermon on ‘The Sacking of the City of Rome’ appears to lack the pastoral rhetoric that readers of his Confessions are so familiar with. This paper recovers the pastoral dimension of Augustine’s discourse by reading it alongside recent reinterpretations of barebacking subculture in queer theory. Maia Kotrosits argues that the rhetorical turn in the categorization of HIV/AIDS produced senses of asynchrony, and that barebacking responds to these by rooting the individual in an irreversible timeline of HIV-positivity. Barebacking can therefore be read as ‘pastoral’ rhetoric that resolves the agony of uncertainty. Augustine’s sermon is pastoral in this sense; Augustine imposes an historical ending that resolves the temporal anxiety he and his contemporaries felt after the sack of Rome in 410. Nevertheless, writing an ending – pastoral as that may be – can be a violent process if it negates or replaces the revolutionary work of making history.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-12DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1830700
Juliane Hammer
ABSTRACT This article explores recent Muslim debates on sexuality through an analysis of American Muslim conversations on LGBTQI+ inclusion and sexual norms as they took place in the ‘Muslim American public square,’ defined as a porous space of debate, analysis, and affect that is marked by intense public scrutiny and hostility towards Muslims. It analyzes religious arguments regarding queer Muslims and contextualizes them as a specific set of patriarchal Muslim responses to the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage in 2015 and to the attack on the Pulse Club in Orlando in 2016, exhibiting an affective investment in a stable Islamic tradition that constructs patriarchal sexual norms as the linchpin of the tradition. Muslim American debates refract broader American conversations while also being marked by distinct positionalities, arguments, and affects that preclude the possibility of categorizing the diversity of Muslim attitudes towards same-sex love and marriage either affirmatively or negatively.
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