Queer Women and Religious Individualism

Melissa M. Wilcox

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Indiana University Press
01 September 2009

Religion: general; Lesbian studies

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.

By: Melissa M. Wilcox
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780253221162
ISBN 10: 0253221161
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 01 September 2009
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Acknowledgments Map of Los Angeles 1. Beyond the Congregation 2. Setting the Stage: Historical Contexts 3. Queering the Spiritual Marketplace 4. Negotiating Religion: Continuity, Conversion, Innovation 5. Tiles in the Mosaic: Organizations as Resources 6. Building a Mosaic: The Sacred (and the) Self 7. Queer Women, Religion, and Postmodernity Appendix A. Biographical Summaries Appendix B. Methods and Methodological Considerations Appendix C. Interview Schedules Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Melissa M. Wilcox is Associate Professor of Religion and Gender Studies at Whitman College and author of Coming Out in Christianity: Religion, Identity, and Community (IUP, 2003) and editor (with David Wayne Machacek) of Sexuality and the World's Religions.

Reviews for Queer Women and Religious Individualism

""In this volume Wilcox explores her findings of a survey of women conducted in the Los Angeles area, investigating female sexual variations in relation to religion and spirituality...The volume usefully concludes with biographical summaries and methodological considerations."" Stephen hunt, Religion and Gender ""Original research into areas that have not been much investigated or written about... A rather masterful user of [theory], Wilcox is especially interested in taking the idea of 'intersectionality' ... And using it as a theoretical reminder that one must represent women in their clearest life contexts of race, gender, community, economics, physical and emotional resources, etc., as well as the individual power they muster to create their own religious lives."" Leonard Primiano, Cabrini College