Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the
Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large
predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught,
history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault
lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based emphasis on
shared vulnerability leads it to engage in radical solidarity with
asylum-seekers, pointing to the work of affect in radical,
coalition politics. A House of Prayer for All People maps
the affective dimensions of the politics of citizenship at this
church. For nearly three years, David K. Seitz regularly attended
services at MCCT. He paid special attention to how community and
citizenship are formed in a primarily queer Christian organization,
focusing on four contemporary struggles: debates on race and gender
in religious leadership, activism around police–minority
relations, outreach to LGBT Christians transnationally, and
advocacy for asylum seekers. Engaging in debates in cultural
geography, queer of color critique, psychoanalysis, and affect
theory, A House of Prayer for All People stages innovative,
reparative encounters with citizenship and religion.Â
Building on queer theory’s rich history of “subjectless”
critique, Seitz calls for an “improper” queer citizenship—one
that refuses liberal identity politics or national territory as the
ethical horizon for sympathy, solidarity, rights, redistribution,
or intimacy. Improper queer citizenship, he suggests, depends not
only on “good politics” but also on people’s capacity for
empathy, integration, and repair.
General
Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2017 |
First published: |
2017 |
Authors: |
David K Seitz
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5179-0214-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
1-5179-0214-2 |
Barcode: |
9781517902148 |
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