scholarly journals Researching Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Christians and Muslims: Some Thematic Reflections

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew K. T. Yip
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Hidden Populations ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Role Of Religion

This paper highlights some thematic reflections primarily based on two empirical research projects on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) Christians and Muslims. It begins by discussing reflexivity by way of contextualising the subsequent exploration of specific themes. This is followed by a discussion of the plight of LGB Christians and Muslims which renders research on this population highly sensitive. The paper then explores the theme of researching meanings and lived experiences sensitively, focusing on the importance of being theoretically and culturally sensitive; and the relevance of methodological pragmatism and pluralism. It then proceeds to a detailed discussion of accessing ‘hidden’ populations and trust building; and the dynamics of the insider/outsider status. The paper concludes with a call for LGB research to take seriously intersectionality of contemporary LGB identity (e.g. sexual, religious, cultural, ethnic), and the role of religion/spirituality in LGB lives and politics.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf ◽  
Ken Fones-Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Labor Activists ◽  
Working People ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Taking Action

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the role of religion and faith in the life of working people. In many studies, religion served as an impediment to workers' understanding their class interests. Religion either divided workers of different faiths, served as a tool for the upwardly mobile, or provided a numbing fatalism that prevented working people from taking action against their exploiters. In other studies, the stimulus provided by Herbert Gutman weighed heavily. He was drawn to the examples he uncovered of a Christian spirit infusing the rhetoric and writings of labor activists and offering a postmillennial justification for working-class solidarity. Neither group of scholars tried to grapple systematically with the messiness of spiritual convictions and how those convictions interacted with lived experiences to shape the consciousness and actions of average working people.

Faith without Answers: The Use of Religion among Cold Case Homicide Survivors

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley R. P. Wellman
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Homicide Survivors ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Cold Case

Through data gathered from interviews with cold case homicide survivors, this article reveals the important role of religion and faith in the aftermath of an unsolved murder. Using qualitative methodology, the author highlights the lived experiences and personal journeys of cold case homicide surviving family members, who are often a forgotten and an overlooked segment of victims. Qualitative data suggests that these cold case homicide survivors found religion to be critical in the aftermath of their loved one's murder. Specifically, survivors indicated their faith was fundamental in coping with the homicide and provided hope for anticipating a resolution in their cases. From these intimate, personal survivor accounts, scholars and practitioners can begin to develop future research and programs that are specifically designed to highlight the role of religion in moving forward after an unsolved murder.

Inadvertently queer school leadership amongst lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) school leaders

Organization ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Courtney
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Identity Category ◽  
Institutional Foundations

Lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) school leaders may understand these sexual identities as essentialist categories and present lived experiences resistant to the identity category-troubling tenets of queer theory, whose application in queer empirical research can nonetheless provide important insights into leaders’ identity, practices and power. In this article, I focus on reconciling this conceptual tension to produce an empirical account of inadvertently queer school leadership in England. The article uses queer theory to re-interpret findings from a study of five LGB school leaders to show that despite perceiving sexual identity in an essentialist way, these LGB school leaders sexually embody inadvertently queer school leadership. They trouble gender norms and conceptualizations of ‘leader’ through non-normative sexual embodiment; suggest queer identities for others; and challenge heteronormativity’s institutional foundations and other processes of normalization.

scholarly journals „Odwrócony dekalog”, popękana kultura. Socjologiczne refleksje wokół kultury i religijności

2021 ◽  
Vol 12(48) (1) ◽  
pp. 53-78
Author(s):  
Wojciech Świątkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
University Students ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Role Of Religion

Attitudes towards the Ten Commandments, expressed in accepting or rejecting its principles, mark the direction of changes in Christian civilization and culture. The results of nationwide sociological empirical research conducted among university students in 2017 were a premise for the conclusions on the deconstruction of the Decalogue, which is subject to relativization procedures and inscribed in the cultural spaces of transition from objective morality to subjective morality, from the morality of orders and prohibitions to the morality of free choices justified by the principle of situational conformism. Attitudes towards the Decalogue are not only a consequence of selective choices and rejections but also of subjective composing and free structuring of decalogical principles. The in-verted decalogue shows the broken foundations of Christian civilization and the lost experience of cultural identity expressed in the formula etsi Deus non daretur. The article consists of six points: Introduction: Culture and Religion, The Role of Religion in the Processes of Cultural Legitimation, The Decalogue in the Christian Tradition and its Role in Culture, Accepted and Rejected The Decalogue, The Decalogue of Deeply Believers and Systematic Practitioners, Conclusions.

The Impact of Evolving Jihadist Narratives on Radicalisation in the West

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akil N. Awan
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
The West ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Foreign Fighters ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the role Jihadist narratives have played in the radicalization of young Muslims in the West towards violent extremism, and how these narratives have changed over the years as Islamic State (ISIS) has trumped Al-Qaeda in becoming the organization of choice for most Western Jihadists today. The chapter explores the biographies of numerous individuals drawn to violent extremism, including those who have travelled abroad as foreign fighters or conducted home grown domestic terrorist attacks. The study finds that radical narratives only have potency when they intersect with structural conditions or the lived experiences that individuals may find themselves in. The chapter explores the role of religion, identity, altruism, and socio-economic marginalization in helping to account for increasing recruitment to Jihadism, suggesting fruitful avenues for Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) measures.

The Role of Religion in Establishing Peaceful Coexistence in Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 163-182
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zaman Nazi ◽  
◽  
Farman Ali ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Peaceful Coexistence ◽  
Role Of Religion
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