Who am I? whom can I love? and why me?: Queer Christians and the spirituality of struggle

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Critical Research on Religion Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI:10.1177/20503032241277494

Jayeel S. Cornelio, Robbin Charles M. Dagle

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How do queer Christians navigate the tensions between faith and sexuality? This article points to the spirituality of struggle as an answer. In the context of the Philippines, a society known for its religious and moral conservatism, we define this spirituality as an ongoing process in which queer Christians aspire to discover and fulfill God’s will for their lives. We explain this spirituality in the form of three questions we gathered from our interlocutors: Who am I? Whom can I love? And why me? Taken together, these questions reflect the deepest concerns they have about faith and sexuality. Recognizing the spirituality of struggle offers significant contributions to studying religion and gender in the Philippines: by recognizing queer religious identities as dynamic, negotiated acts steeped in ambivalence and by serving as an empirical counterpoint to the militant Christianity in the country. These insights are drawn from semi-structured interviews with sixty-six young adults who self-identify as non-heterosexual men. They are also from different Christian denominations in the Greater Manila Area.

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我是谁？我能爱谁？同性恋基督徒与斗争的灵性

同性恋基督徒如何处理信仰与性行为之间的矛盾？本文将斗争的灵性作为答案。菲律宾是一个以宗教和道德保守主义著称的社会，在此背景下，我们将这种灵修定义为一个持续的过程，在这个过程中，同性恋基督徒渴望发现并实现上帝对他们生命的旨意。我们用从对话者那里收集到的三个问题来解释这种灵修：我是谁？我能爱谁？为什么是我？总之，这些问题反映了他们对信仰和性行为最深切的关注。认识到斗争的灵性为研究菲律宾的宗教和性别问题做出了重大贡献：认识到同性恋的宗教身份是充满活力的、经过协商的、充满矛盾的行为，是对该国激进基督教的一种经验性反驳。这些见解来自对 66 名自我认同为非异性恋男性的年轻人进行的半结构化访谈。他们还来自大马尼拉地区的不同基督教派。

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期刊介绍： Critical Research on Religion is a peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on the development of a critical theoretical framework and its application to research on religion. It provides a common venue for those engaging in critical analysis in theology and religious studies, as well as for those who critically study religion in the other social sciences and humanities such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literature. A critical approach examines religious phenomena according to both their positive and negative impacts. It draws on methods including but not restricted to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, ideological criticism, post-colonialism, ecocriticism, and queer studies. The journal seeks to enhance an understanding of how religious institutions and religious thought may simultaneously serve as a source of domination and progressive social change. It attempts to understand the role of religion within social and political conflicts. These conflicts are often based on differences of race, class, ethnicity, region, gender, and sexual orientation – all of which are shaped by social, political, and economic inequity. The journal encourages submissions of theoretically guided articles on current issues as well as those with historical interest using a wide range of methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and archival. It publishes articles, review essays, book reviews, thematic issues, symposia, and interviews.