Queer Religiosities

An Introduction to Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion

By: Melissa M. Wilcox

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Queer Religiosities is the first comprehensive, comparative, and globally focused introduction to queer and transgender studies in religion. Addressing sophisticated topics in clear and accessible language, award-winning teacher and scholar Melissa M. Wilcox brings her engaging lecture style into conversation with the work of scholars around the globe to welcome students into these rapidly growing fields.

Following an introduction to key concepts in religious studies, queer studies, and transgender studies and an overview of the history of transgender and queer studies in religion, thematic chapters address the topics of stories, conversations, practices, identities, communities, and politics and power. This inherently comparative organization helps readers to understand the details and complexities of religions, genders, and sexualities as they are lived out around the world. Additional resources include study questions, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a glossary, an annotated filmography, and a selected bibliography to encourage further study.

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While now significant, and growing, areas of academic inquiry, there have yet to be any texts that introduce readers to queer and transgender studies in religion in their breadth and depth. Melissa Wilcox’s Queer Religiosities fills this gap. Taking a thematic and intersectional approach, Wilcox surveys and explores the variety of ways that religion, same-sex desire, and gender variance intersect in scholarship that both draws from and speaks to lived experiences. A thoughtfully crafted and exceptionally well-written and engaging text, Queer Religiosities is an invaluable resource for undergraduates, graduate students, and anyone interested in the intersections of queer, transgender, and religious studies.