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Now more than ever before we hear Muslim voices in opposition to the “mainstream,” particularly on issues of gender and sexuality. These challenging and queer voices forcefully push us to consider how this mainstream came to be and what it actually tells us about Muslim societies. These voices further challenge notions of “orthodoxy” and “authority” … Read more

Article acknowledgements. “Queer” and “religion” are arguably uneasy bedfellows. Both can be—and are being—used as categories for the projection of identitarian yearning and belonging, often constructed as mutually exclusive types of belonging. Both categories are problematic; both are contested. In this paper I investigate queer (and) religion using different discursive threads such as Human Rights; … Read more

Introduction One of the first, and arguably most significant, moments when queerness and religion intersected in my life, was during a conversation I had with my mother’s oldest sister in the summer of 2001. Aunt Mary was our family’s matriarch and religious authority, and she is credited with ushering many of my family members into … Read more

Queer theoretical work has contributed to conceptual and contextual shifts in academic discourse. The discipline of religion is being challenged, certainly in the ways it has been constituted in its modern academic version, by what current queer studies bring to the discussion. Likewise, what emerges as proper object of study for queer scholarship on gender … Read more

Some preliminary musings on queer theory and religion: I am thinking about the relationships that queer theories have to religious studies and to theological studies. While queer theoretical approaches have been exceedingly productive in historical and textual pursuits across many disciplines—including historical readings and textual analyses in religion (Mark Jordan’s work stands out here, among … Read more