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This book enters a new liminal space between the LGBTQ and
denominational Christian communities. It simultaneously explores
how those who identify as queer can find a home in church and how
those leading welcoming, or indeed unwelcoming, congregations can
better serve both communities. The primary argument is that queer
inclusion must not merely mean an assimilation into existing
heteronormative respectability and approval. Chapters are written
by a diverse collection of Asian, Latin American, and U.S.
theologians, religious studies scholars and activists. Each of them
writes from their own social context to address the notion of LGBTQ
alternative orthodoxies and praxes pertaining to God, the saints,
failure of the church, queer eschatologies, and erotic economies.
Engaging with issues that are not only faced by those in the
theological academy, but also by clergy and congregants, the book
addresses those impacted by a history of Christian hostility and
violence who have become suspicious of attempts at "acceptance". It
also sets out an encouragement for queer theologians and clergy
think deeply about how they form communities where queer
perspectives are proactively included. This is a forward-looking
and positive vision of a more inclusive theology and ecclesiology.
It will, therefore, appeal to scholars of Queer Theology and
Religious Studies as well as practitioners seeking a fresh
perspective on church and the LGBTQ community.
Sexuality, religion and faith often have complex and conflicting
interactions, on both personal and societal levels. Numerous
studies have been conducted on queer subjects, but they have
predominantly focused on 'Western' expressions of faith and queer
identities. This book contributes to the wider scholarship on queer
subjects by drawing on actual lived experiences of self-identifying
gay and bisexual men in Malaysia. It discusses what we can learn
from the realities of their lives that intersect with their
religious, spiritual, theological or humanistic values in an Asian
context. Analysed within the critical frameworks of queer theory
and queer sexual theology, this study divulges the meanings
ascribed to sexual identities and practices, as well as
conceptualisations of masculinity, sexual desire, love and intimate
physical connections. It also lays bare the complex negotiations
between gender, desire and spirit, and how they can affect one
another. Tying fascinating case studies and underexplored Asian
theologies with wider conversations around sexuality and faith,
this book will be of significant interest to scholars working in
religious studies, theology, queer studies, sexuality studies and
Asian studies.
This book is a dedicated academic study of Amplify, a series of
open and affirming Christian conferences in Asia that provides
spaces of worship, support, fellowship, collaboration, and
networking for LGBTIQ-affirming churches. Through a detailed
analysis of narratives from fourteen Amplify frontliners comprising
co-founders, hosts, organisers, co-organisers, speakers,
consultants, and other active contributors, this volume chronicles
the historical development of Amplify from its 2009 inception in
Singapore to subsequent occurrences in Hong Kong, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Singapore and, most recently, Taiwan in 2018. Written at
the intersection of gender, sexuality, and theology, the focus of
this volume lies in the construction of Asian LGBTIQ ecclesiologies
that emanate from, and speak to the theological vision of doing
church at Amplify.
This book brings together a group of innovative scholars examining
the contemporary issue of effecting gender and sexuality justice in
the context of Asia, consonant with engendering a just, equitable
and sustainable development for all. These grassroots initiatives
are woven through three complementary sections of the book: gender
justice in Asia, sexuality justice in Asia, and finding resolutions
through conflict. The book foregrounds strategies that aim to call
out and challenge existing gender and sexuality injustices with
regard to women and the LGBTIQA+ community by: assessing the
efficacy of gender mainstreaming policies through micro-credit
schemes for women in East Java, Indonesia; proliferating the
signifiers of the hijab (veil) by postmodern Malay-Muslim women or
'Hijabistas' within the consumerist culture of Malaysia; making
visible the injustices of the Syariah legal system for non-Muslim
women, and ground-breaking legislation that could potentially
recognise same-sex marriages in Thailand; privileging the
narratives of gay women diplomats within the highly masculinised
field of diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region; foregrounding the
narratives of Filipino gay men, intimate partner violence among
young Indonesian Christian young people, masculine-identifying
lesbians in Singapore, young LGBT people in rural Vietnam, and a
Chinese-Muslim Malaysian female-to-male transgender person; and
proposing new ways of becoming an inclusive church through the
radical act of befriending persons living with HIV and AIDS in
Southeast Asia. This book celebrates diverse and inclusive voices
and strategies of gender and sexual agents of change in envisioning
and bringing to fruition a just and transformative society for all.
It is of interest to students and scholars researching gender and
sexuality in areas of development studies, international relations,
socio-legal studies, and literary studies.
This book is a dedicated academic study of Amplify, a series of
open and affirming Christian conferences in Asia that provides
spaces of worship, support, fellowship, collaboration, and
networking for LGBTIQ-affirming churches. Through a detailed
analysis of narratives from fourteen Amplify frontliners comprising
co-founders, hosts, organisers, co-organisers, speakers,
consultants, and other active contributors, this volume chronicles
the historical development of Amplify from its 2009 inception in
Singapore to subsequent occurrences in Hong Kong, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Singapore and, most recently, Taiwan in 2018. Written at
the intersection of gender, sexuality, and theology, the focus of
this volume lies in the construction of Asian LGBTIQ ecclesiologies
that emanate from, and speak to the theological vision of doing
church at Amplify.
Sexuality, religion and faith often have complex and conflicting
interactions, on both personal and societal levels. Numerous
studies have been conducted on queer subjects, but they have
predominantly focused on 'Western' expressions of faith and queer
identities. This book contributes to the wider scholarship on queer
subjects by drawing on actual lived experiences of self-identifying
gay and bisexual men in Malaysia. It discusses what we can learn
from the realities of their lives that intersect with their
religious, spiritual, theological or humanistic values in an Asian
context. Analysed within the critical frameworks of queer theory
and queer sexual theology, this study divulges the meanings
ascribed to sexual identities and practices, as well as
conceptualisations of masculinity, sexual desire, love and intimate
physical connections. It also lays bare the complex negotiations
between gender, desire and spirit, and how they can affect one
another. Tying fascinating case studies and underexplored Asian
theologies with wider conversations around sexuality and faith,
this book will be of significant interest to scholars working in
religious studies, theology, queer studies, sexuality studies and
Asian studies.
This book enters a new liminal space between the LGBTQ and
denominational Christian communities. It simultaneously explores
how those who identify as queer can find a home in church and how
those leading welcoming, or indeed unwelcoming, congregations can
better serve both communities. The primary argument is that queer
inclusion must not merely mean an assimilation into existing
heteronormative respectability and approval. Chapters are written
by a diverse collection of Asian, Latin American, and U.S.
theologians, religious studies scholars and activists. Each of them
writes from their own social context to address the notion of LGBTQ
alternative orthodoxies and praxes pertaining to God, the saints,
failure of the church, queer eschatologies, and erotic economies.
Engaging with issues that are not only faced by those in the
theological academy, but also by clergy and congregants, the book
addresses those impacted by a history of Christian hostility and
violence who have become suspicious of attempts at "acceptance". It
also sets out an encouragement for queer theologians and clergy
think deeply about how they form communities where queer
perspectives are proactively included. This is a forward-looking
and positive vision of a more inclusive theology and ecclesiology.
It will, therefore, appeal to scholars of Queer Theology and
Religious Studies as well as practitioners seeking a fresh
perspective on church and the LGBTQ community.
This book explores the fluid, mutable and contingent ways in which
transgender men in Malaysia construct their subjectivities. Against
the dearth of academic resources on Malaysian trans men, this
ground-breaking monograph is rooted in the lived experiences of
Malaysian trans men whose vicissitudes have mostly been hidden,
silenced and overlooked. Comprising diverse age groups,
ethnicities, socio-economic status, educational backgrounds and
religious persuasions, these trans men reveal how they navigate
life in a country with secular and religious laws that criminalise
their embodiments, and the strategies they deploy to achieve
self-determination and self-actualisation despite being perceived
as aberrant and sinful. This book demonstrates how negotiations
with constitutive elements such as gender identity, social
interaction, citizenship, legality, bodily struggle, medical
transitioning and personal spiritual validation condition the
becomings of Malaysian trans men.
This book explores the fluid, mutable and contingent ways in which
transgender men in Malaysia construct their subjectivities. Against
the dearth of academic resources on Malaysian trans men, this
ground-breaking monograph is rooted in the lived experiences of
Malaysian trans men whose vicissitudes have mostly been hidden,
silenced and overlooked. Comprising diverse age groups,
ethnicities, socio-economic status, educational backgrounds and
religious persuasions, these trans men reveal how they navigate
life in a country with secular and religious laws that criminalise
their embodiments, and the strategies they deploy to achieve
self-determination and self-actualisation despite being perceived
as aberrant and sinful. This book demonstrates how negotiations
with constitutive elements such as gender identity, social
interaction, citizenship, legality, bodily struggle, medical
transitioning and personal spiritual validation condition the
becomings of Malaysian trans men.
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