“There’s theology and then there’s the people I love. . .”: Authority and Ambivalence in Seminarians’ Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Relationships, Marriage, and Ordination

IF 2.4 1区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Erin Johnston, Anna Holleman, Laura Krull
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Abstract Drawing from 102 in-depth interviews conducted with first-year Master of Divinity (M.Div.) students at a Mainline Protestant seminary, this paper examines how students describe and account for their positions on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy. We found that students on “both sides”—i.e., those who lean affirming and those who lean non-affirming—invoked three primary authorities in their accounts: Biblical authority, Godly authority, and the authority of lived experience, as demonstrated in the lives of gay and lesbian people. We also found that nearly one-third of the students in our sample expressed uncertainty, ambivalence, and/or contradictions in their responses. Through a close analysis of these accounts, we show that ambivalence and uncertainty are rooted in attempts to navigate and “reconcile” the pulls of these different authorities and that attitudinal certainty is often accomplished by privileging one authority over others.
“首先是神学,然后是我爱的人……”:神学院学生对同性关系、婚姻和圣职的态度中的权威和矛盾
摘要:本文对一所主流新教神学院的一年级神学硕士(m.d div)学生进行了102次深度访谈,研究了学生如何描述和解释他们对同性恋、同性婚姻和男女同性恋神职人员任命的立场。我们发现“两边”的学生——也就是。那些倾向于肯定的人和那些倾向于非肯定的人在他们的叙述中引用了三个主要权威:圣经权威、神的权威和生活经验的权威,这在同性恋者的生活中得到了证明。我们还发现,在我们的样本中,近三分之一的学生在他们的回答中表达了不确定、矛盾和/或矛盾。通过对这些描述的仔细分析,我们发现矛盾心理和不确定性根植于试图驾驭和“调和”这些不同权威的拉力,而态度上的确定性通常是通过赋予一种权威高于其他权威的特权来实现的。
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期刊介绍: Sociology of Religion, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, is published quarterly for the purpose of advancing scholarship in the sociological study of religion. The journal publishes original (not previously published) work of exceptional quality and interest without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach. Although theoretically ambitious, empirically grounded articles are the core of what we publish, we also welcome agenda setting essays, comments on previously published works, critical reflections on the research act, and interventions into substantive areas or theoretical debates intended to push the field ahead. Sociology of Religion has published work by renowned scholars from Nancy Ammerman to Robert Wuthnow. Robert Bellah, Niklas Luhmann, Talcott Parsons, and Pitirim Sorokin all published in the pages of this journal. More recently, articles published in Sociology of Religion have won the ASA Religion Section’s Distinguished Article Award (Rhys Williams in 2000) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion’s Distinguished Article Award (Matthew Lawson in 2000 and Fred Kniss in 1998). Building on this legacy, Sociology of Religion aspires to be the premier English-language publication for sociological scholarship on religion and an essential source for agenda-setting work in the field.
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