| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Repairing Bad Objects : Improper Citizenship in Queer Church -- Too Diverse? Race, Gender, and Affect in Church -- Pastor-Diva-Citizen : The Reverend Dr. Brent Hawkes, Homonormative Melancholia, and the Limits of Celebrity -- "Why Are You Doing This?" : Desiring Queer Global Citizenship -- From Identity to Precarity : Asylum, State Violence, and Alternative Horizons for Improper Citizenship -- Loving an Unfinished World |
| Summary |
The author maps the affective dimensions of the politics of citizenship at one large LGBT church, focusing on debates on race and gender in religious leadership, activism around police-minority relations, outreach to LGBT Christians transnationally, and advocacy for asylum seekers. Through cultural geography, queer of color critique, psychoanalysis, and affect theory, this book stages reparative encounters with citizenship and religion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Metropolitan Community Church (Toronto, Ont.)
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| SUBJECT |
Metropolitan Community Church (Toronto, Ont.) fast |
| Subject |
Church membership.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
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Church membership
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781452955575 |
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1452955573 |
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1517902142 |
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9781517902148 |
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