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Queer Women and Religious Individualism

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Description for Queer Women and Religious Individualism paperback. Spiritual, queer, and community identity in 21st-century America Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; HRA; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.

Melissa M. Wilcox explores the complex spiritual lives of queer women in the Los Angeles area. She takes the reader on a tour of a colorful array of religious and secular groups that serve as spiritual resources for these women—from the well-known Metropolitan Community Churches to Wiccan covens, from the Gay and Lesbian Sierrans to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Arguing that these women's stories are exemplary cases of postmodern patterns of religious identity, belief, and practice, Wilcox offers a nuanced analysis of contemporary Western spirituality and selfhood, and a detailed exploration of the history of queer religious organizing in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253221162
SKU
V9780253221162
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About Melissa M. Wilcox
Melissa M. Wilcox is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies at Whitman College and author of Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community (IUP, 2003) and editor (with David Wayne Machacek) of Sexuality and the World's Religions.

Reviews for Queer Women and Religious Individualism
Wilcox (Whitman College) has crafted a remarkably fine study in the sociology of religion that she developed from a base of only 29 LBT core interview subjects. Here she proves herself the equal of Robert Bellah et al., in their landmark community studies Habits of the Heart (1985) and The Good Society (CH, Mar'92, 29-4200), by combining the skills of ... Read more

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