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- Title
MOBILIZING RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER DISCOURSES IN A METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH.
- Authors
Sumerau, J. Edward
- Abstract
Drawing on principles of intersectionality, I explore how members of a southeastern Metropolitan Community Church use race, class, and gender discourses to construct and signify moral identities as Christian sexual minorities. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork, I demonstrate how members mobilized discourses emphasizing the incorporation of racial diversity, the minimization of class distinctions, and the equalization of gender categories within the church to signify their own moral worth. Moreover, I show how members anchored these discourses in the authority of Biblical scripture, which allowed them to claim moral standing within the larger Christian tradition while minimizing the tension between their sexual and religious identity claims. In conclusion, I draw out two central implications of this work: (1) how race, class, and gender discourses may provide symbolic resources for integrating sexual and religious identities and locally constructing sexual and religious morality; and (2) the importance of intersectional analyses for assessing LGBT religious experience
- Subjects
SEXUAL minorities; COMMUNITY churches; CHURCH &; minorities; ETHNIC relations; RACISM
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 3/4, p93
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article