Sexual and Religious Regimes of the Self in Dutch Discourses about Homosexuality:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Sexual and Religious Regimes of the Self in Dutch Discourses about Homosexuality: "
Marco Derks

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1069286
Doc. No	:	LA112915
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341547‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Marco Derks
Title & Author	:	Sexual and Religious Regimes of the Self in Dutch Discourses about Homosexuality: [Article] : A Queer Theological Analysis and Alternative\ Marco Derks
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Public Theology
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	12/3-4
Page No	:	353–378
Abstract	:	This article discusses two major ways in which sexual and religious identities are conceptualized in Dutch public discourses about homosexuality. In a secular discourse that stresses that LGBTs should be able to ‘be themselves’, certain religious identities are often ignored, subordinated or attacked, while the self that needs to be realized is rendered primarily a sexual self. A conservative Protestant (counter-)discourse on ‘being in Christ’ subordinates (homo)sexual identity to Christian identity—or even rejects it. To move beyond such (Late) Modern oppositional constructions of religion and homosexuality in terms of (religious/sexual) “identity”, this article explores the (queer) Catholic concept of sacramental characters—as an anti-identity—and suggests that it has the potential to unsettle some of the deadlocks in public discourses about homosexuality and sexual diversity. This article discusses two major ways in which sexual and religious identities are conceptualized in Dutch public discourses about homosexuality. In a secular discourse that stresses that LGBTs should be able to ‘be themselves’, certain religious identities are often ignored, subordinated or attacked, while the self that needs to be realized is rendered primarily a sexual self. A conservative Protestant (counter-)discourse on ‘being in Christ’ subordinates (homo)sexual identity to Christian identity—or even rejects it. To move beyond such (Late) Modern oppositional constructions of religion and homosexuality in terms of (religious/sexual) “identity”, this article explores the (queer) Catholic concept of sacramental characters—as an anti-identity—and suggests that it has the potential to unsettle some of the deadlocks in public discourses about homosexuality and sexual diversity.
Descriptor	:	authenticity
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	homosexuality
Descriptor	:	identity
Descriptor	:	Jewish Studies
Descriptor	:	Philosophy, Theology Science
Descriptor	:	Practical Theology
Descriptor	:	queer theology
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	sacramentality
Descriptor	:	secularism
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Sociology of Religion
Descriptor	:	the Netherlands
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15697320-12341547‬