Queer Women and Religious Individualism by Melissa M. Wilcox

Queer Women and Religious Individualism

Melissa M. Wilcox

Melissa M. Wilcox explores the complex spiritual lives of queer women in the Los Angeles area. She takes the reader on a tour of a colorful array of religious and secular groups that serve as spiritual resources for these women―from the well-known Metropolitan Community Churches to Wiccan covens, from the Gay and Lesbian Sierrans to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Arguing that these women’s stories are exemplary cases of postmodern patterns of religious identity, belief, and practice, Wilcox offers a nuanced analysis of contemporary Western spirituality and selfhood, and a detailed exploration of the history of queer religious organizing in Los Angeles. Queer Women and Religious Individualism is important reading for scholars in religious studies, sociology, women’s studies, and LGBT studies.


 


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ISBN: 9780253221162
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
Subject: Lesbians – California; Lesbians – Religious life – United States; Lesbians – Social conditions. – United States
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Language: English
Format: Paperback
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Book_ID: 259143

Author: NorthShore Noir Press