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{"title":"Trust women: a progressive Christian argument for reproductive justice","authors":"Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar","doi":"10.1080/13558358.2023.2181658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2023.2181658","url":null,"abstract":"traditions are necessary for social change, but new visions and languages have to be created as well (113f f.). In addition, Grelle’s attention to Gramsci’s understanding of “ideal interests” in chapter 6 is worth noting (122 ff.). Gramsci challenges orthodox Marxism’s reductionist focus on material interests showing that human life is driven by ideals as well. Moreover, this humanist emphasis allows Grelle to criticize overly suspicious approaches that denigrate human rights as “bourgeois freedoms.” Instead, Grelle stresses the importance of these freedoms in the struggle for justice of subaltern groups. With Gramsci, Grelle criticizes the denigration of certain ideas due to their “sectional” origin. Rather, he offers a compelling argument to see how these ideals can go beyond sectional interests and be universalized for the enhancement of all human life (127–28). What the reader misses in this fine book is some engagement with social movements of Gramscian inspiration. It is unfortunate that Grelle only mentions liberation theology once and in passing (64). To take an example, Gustavo Gutiérrez was deeply influenced by Gramsci and José Carlos Mariátegui’s creative, humanist interpretation of Marxism, an interpretation that he retrieved critically in the development of his theology. Closer attention to this and other concrete appropriations of Gramsci could have enriched the book greatly, especially in its constructive section.","PeriodicalId":42039,"journal":{"name":"Theology & Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73866876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bodies broken: abortion, abuse, and the body of Christ","authors":"Whitney Harper","doi":"10.1080/13558358.2023.2231815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2023.2231815","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The topic of abortion has continually received public attention in the United States, with men in leadership positions in the Church and presidential campaigns regularly speaking on it. While the dualistic pro-life versus pro-choice framework has been used by presidential candidates especially since the 1980’s, more recently it has framed public discussions about Eucharistic participation as well. In this article, I look at these discussions about Eucharistic participation with special attention to survivors of sexual assault. Reading this site where abortion, assault, and sacraments converge with hermeneutical tools taken from the work of Judith Butler and practices in trauma theory, this paper will focus especially on the effects of these practices on women who are faced with a challenge to their admittance to the Eucharistic space, which I argue is rooted in the misrecognition and essentialization of embodiment, and is a practice in a dissociative theology.","PeriodicalId":42039,"journal":{"name":"Theology & Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89202450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Queer performance and indecent theology in the Gospel according to Porta dos Fundos","authors":"Alex Bádue, Jeff Jay","doi":"10.1080/13558358.2023.2225369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2023.2225369","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 In December 2019 Netflix dropped The First Temptation of Christ, a Christmas special by the Brazilian comedy group Porta dos Fundos. The drama ensues when Jesus returns home on his thirtieth birthday after forty days in the desert with his flamboyantly gay lover Orlando. Outrage greeted the film’s release in Brazil and North America. On-line petitions demanded Netflix to take down the film, churches in Brazil filed lawsuits, and on Christmas eve an extremist group threw two Molotov cocktails at Porta’s office in Rio de Janeiro. We demonstrate that the film stages queer performance that disidentifies with toxic tropes from mainstream cultural sources. Porta’s liberative praxis creates queer Christian possibilities as it disrupts the present with queer futurity and hope. The film thus provides a source for indecent theology re-figuring a Christology that correlates more profoundly with how people live and love.","PeriodicalId":42039,"journal":{"name":"Theology & Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78760106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How religiosity correlates with Catholic beliefs regarding human sexuality: a theological-pastoral study of individuals associated with the Shalom center in Mitunguu, Kenya","authors":"Jacek Goleń, Jan Kobak, Florence Kabala","doi":"10.1080/13558358.2023.2206937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2023.2206937","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article presents the correlation between religiosity and understanding of human sexuality among a selected group of young Kenyan Catholics. Our research aimed to pinpoint the contingencies between these variables with a view to reaching some conclusions and offering suggestions for religious education and pastoral care of youth and families. The present research into religiosity made use of Huber’s Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS). The respondents’ understanding of human sexuality was studied with the use of a survey prepared by the authors. Our research shows that an understanding of human sexuality from a Catholic point of view increases alongside an increase in one’s interest in religion, in religious convictions, and the centrality of religion in one’s life. The analyzed correlations occurred more frequently and were stronger among men than women. There were most connections among the youngest group of respondents, younger than 20 and currently receiving education.","PeriodicalId":42039,"journal":{"name":"Theology & Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78403410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"LGBTQ Catholics: a guide to inclusive ministry","authors":"Mark A. Levand","doi":"10.1080/13558358.2022.2139990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2022.2139990","url":null,"abstract":"In LGBTQ Catholics: A Guide to Inclusive Ministry, Yunuen Trujillo explores and outlines different ways Catholic parishes might best support LGBTQ Catholics through ministry and community. Grounding her work in the reality that many LGBTQ Catholics have often had to hide in fear of losing their faith community and connections to God, and speaking from her own vocation and context of ministry in Los Angeles, Trujillo aims to help parishes begin an LGBTQ ministry. In her guide, Trujillo offers useful insights into the dynamics in Catholic parishes that can help foster a culture of acceptance and communitybuilding for LGBTQ Catholics. LGBTQ Catholics begins with basic information for those not familiar with the experiences of LGBTQ people: offering information about the coming out process and relevant dynamics of which leaders should be aware for effective ministry, providing basic definitions, and naming and challenging common stereotypes within Catholic contexts. Trujillo offers comprehensible statements that dispel a range of myths around LGBTQ people. For example, when describing a friend’s experience of discernment into religious life, Trujillo noted that ‘a religious sister mistakenly told her that she could not be a religious if she was gay’ (16). Trujillo also distinguishes a gay sexual orientation from pedophilia – a mention that, for some, may seem out of place at best. However, in the Catholic context, it is not uncommon for some church leaders to conflate the two, as Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone did in 2010. Given these occurrences, it is unfortunate yet necessary that she include this distinction. Trujillo offers narratives familiar to many readers and succinctly calls out incorrect assumptions. While Trujillo does the important work of dispelling harmful myths, her framing in the initial section does risk harm through erasure. In the first half of the guide, Trujillo discusses ‘sexual orientation and identity,’ only naming gender identity in the latter half. Catholics with non-cis gender identities may feel unseen due to this terminology. Trujillo goes on in the latter half of the guide to mandate an equal pastoral approach to matters of sexual orientation and gender identity, but it may be possible, particularly given trends of conflating and omitting certain vocabulary within Catholic contexts, that this linguistic choice could be read as subtly exclusionary. While the omission of some words may make topics of sexuality more","PeriodicalId":42039,"journal":{"name":"Theology & Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83779891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Queering Black Atlantic religions: transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santeria, and Vodou","authors":"SimonMary Asese Aihiokhai","doi":"10.1080/13558358.2022.2106036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2022.2106036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42039,"journal":{"name":"Theology & Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72786861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Affirming, intersectional spaces & positive religious coping: evidence-based strategies to improve the mental health of LGBTQ-identifying Muslims","authors":"Adnan S. Askari, B. Doolittle","doi":"10.1080/13558358.2022.2089541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2022.2089541","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The interplay between Islam, sexuality, and mental health is complex. In large population studies, religiosity is associated with positive mental health outcomes. However, the data among LGBTQ populations is mixed. Structural, interpersonal, and individual forms of religious trauma may adversely affect the mental health of queer people in religious households, but robust social support can remedy these effects. In particular, the dual-identities of LGBTQ-identifying Muslims complicate their relationships with both religious and queer communities. Here, we present models of LGBTQ-inclusive Muslim spaces as intersectional pathways to positive mental health outcomes, simultaneously offering networks of social support and opportunities to engage with healthy religious coping mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":42039,"journal":{"name":"Theology & Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89934406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Form & Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision","authors":"Jeannie Sellick","doi":"10.1080/13558358.2022.2043090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2022.2043090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42039,"journal":{"name":"Theology & Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82700472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond the borders of society: sex and gender as tropos in Maximus the Confessor’s theology and its relevance to contemporary ethics","authors":"E. Brown Dewhurst","doi":"10.1080/13558358.2022.2033585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2022.2033585","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Maximus the Confessor believed that human nature was originally genderless and sexless and that humans would have this sexless nature restored to them in the resurrection. This paper contextualises Maximus’ theology within a landscape of ascetic, gender ambiguity, and considers what relevance his thought could have for today, given his rising importance in theological ethics. In particular, I focus on teasing out the contemporary ethical implications of sex and gender belonging to tropos – a malleable mode of human expression and movement toward the divine, rather than a fixity of nature.","PeriodicalId":42039,"journal":{"name":"Theology & Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84903748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"BOOK REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Confessions of the Flesh: The History of Sexuality, volume 4, by Michel Foucault; edited by Frederic Gros, translated by Robert Hurley; New York, NY, Pantheon Books, $32.50, ISBN-13: 978-1524748036.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/13558358.2022.2095188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2022.2095188","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of the preface to The Order of Things, Foucault writes: “I am restoring to our silent and apparently immobile soil its rifts, its instability, its flaws; and it is the same ground that is once more stirring under our feet.” While Foucault writes these words in the context of explaining the resonances and parallels between his earlier work on the history of madness (what he calls a “history of the Other”) and his work in The Order of Things (a “history of the same”), this rift-restoring work permeates Foucault’s oeuvre. Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical methods exposed and restored discontinuities and disparities that were (and continue to be) discursively smoothed over—whether through an interrogation of the constitution of the sexual subject, of the logics of punishment, or of the classification of knowledge (to name just a few). This book review symposium on Confessions of the Flesh, the long-awaited English translation of the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality series, reflects upon, emphasizes, and participates in this Foucauldian work of rift-restoration. Since the long-awaited posthumous publication of Les aveux de la chair in 2018, and the English translation three years later, the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality series has already been the subject of significant commentary and analysis. The esteemed scholars participating in this symposium have already made notable contributions to this growing body of work. This symposium builds on that work, contributing to the conversation in a number of ways—three of which this introduction aims to highlight. First, this symposium builds on a growing but still under-developed loci of analysis of Confessions of the Flesh (and of Foucault’s work more broadly)—that of religious and theological studies. There has been a long and sustained history of scholarship on Foucault and religion. From the late 1980’s onward, these scholars, including some of whom are a part of this symposium, have attended to how Foucault’s understanding of and engagement with Christianity, and with religion more broadly, has impacted the shape of his theorizations on the entanglements between subjectivity, truth, and ethics. The publication of Confessions of the Flesh has further highlighted the importance and value of this work. Foucault’s explicit engagement with the Christian tradition in the fourth volume of his history of sexuality has led to increased need for as well as interest by scholars who specialize in the history of Christianity and the interpretation of theological texts, doctrines, and practices. As the (successful) proposal for a new seminar on Foucault and Religion for the American Academy of Religion aptly put it: “While Christianity was important to Foucault’s work even before the History of Sexuality project, and while Foucault’s attention to the relations between knowledge, power, and subjectivity in modernity collided with questions of religion... the opportu","PeriodicalId":42039,"journal":{"name":"Theology & Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74269037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}