1st Edition

Queer Thriving in Religious Schools Encountering Religious Texts, Values, and Rituals

By Seán Henry Copyright 2024
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an account of religious schooling committed to ‘queer-thriving’ and envisions how queer staff and students can live their lives without being ‘accommodated’ within heteronormative religious traditions. Engaging with queer theological perspectives across the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, the book begins by situating queer thriving as a viable part of the work of... Read more

1. On positionality and purpose  2. Why queer thriving?  3. Queer encounters with religious texts  4. Queer encounters with religious values  5. Queer encounters with religious rituals  6. Desire and the archipelago: Encountering resistance to queer thriving  7. Queer thriving in religious schools: Tracing the (im)possible?

Biography

Seán Henry is Lecturer in Education at the Department of Secondary and Further Education, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom.