2445 - Religion and Contested Understandings of Gender and Sexuality (Cosponsored with the Association for the Sociology of Religion)

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

As traditional categories become ever more fluid, how are religious groups and movements responding in ways that either transform traditional understandings or create innovative practices that maintain aspects of tradition while concurrently moving toward transformation? This panel will explore both tensions and transformational understandings of religious belonging and nonconforming gender and sexual identities.

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Session Organizer

• J. E. Sumerau, University of Tampa

Presider

• J. E. Sumerau, University of Tampa

Individual Presentations

• Standing on the beach: LGBTQI and Allied Evangelicals Challenging Binary Interpretations of Genesis - Dawne Moon, Marquette University

• Understanding Bi+ People’s Connections to Religion, Nonreligion, and Spirituality - Lain A.B. Mathers, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Contesting Queer: Lessons from Christian Sex Advice - Kelsy Burke, University of Nebraska Lincoln

• Fluidity and Catholicism - Nik Lampe, University of South Carolina