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- Title
Queering Mormon Spaces: Talking with God, Critical Love, and Structural Reorganization.
- Authors
Brandley, ben
- Abstract
The Mormon Church, like other religions, discursively produces hostile, anti-LGBTQIA + spaces. This study uses queer theory to explore how sacred and religious spaces are created and navigated by queer members of the Church. Analyzing data from an online survey and in-depth interviews, the findings reveal patterns of divine communication and organizational perceptions that blend together as a powerful discursive production of thirdspaces deemed religious-sacred spaces. By offering structural and discursive solutions to structural White cisheteronormativity in the Church, the final section introduces some possibilities of reorganization for queering Mormon spaces.
- Subjects
QUEER theory; MORMONS; SACRED space; GOD; MORMONISM; ORGANIZATIONAL communication
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2022, Vol 86, Issue 5, p650
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2022.2100468