Sexual and Religious Regimes of the Self in Dutch Discourses about Homosexuality: A Queer Theological Analysis and Alternative

This article discusses two major ways in which sexual and religious identities are conceptualized in Dutch public discourses about homosexuality. In a secular discourse that stresses that LGBTs should be able to ‘be themselves', certain religious identities are often ignored, subordinated or at...

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1. VerfasserIn: Derks, Marco 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill [2018]
In: International journal of public theology
Jahr: 2018, Band: 12, Heft: 3/4, Seiten: 353-378
RelBib Classification:FD Kontextuelle Theologie
KBD Beneluxländer
KDD Evangelische Kirche
NBE Anthropologie
NCF Sexualethik
ZC Politik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Authenticity
B Queer Theology
B The Netherlands
B Homosexuality
B Identity
B Sacramentality
B Secularism
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Zusammenfassung:This article discusses two major ways in which sexual and religious identities are conceptualized in Dutch public discourses about homosexuality. In a secular discourse that stresses that LGBTs should be able to ‘be themselves', certain religious identities are often ignored, subordinated or attacked, while the self that needs to be realized is rendered primarily a sexual self. A conservative Protestant (counter-)discourse on ‘being in Christ' subordinates (homo)sexual identity to Christian identity—or even rejects it. To move beyond such (Late) Modern oppositional constructions of religion and homosexuality in terms of (religious/sexual) "identity", this article explores the (queer) Catholic concept of sacramental characters—as an anti-identity—and suggests that it has the potential to unsettle some of the deadlocks in public discourses about homosexuality and sexual diversity.
ISSN:1569-7320
Enthält:Enthalten in: International journal of public theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15697320-12341547