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Christianity, LGBTQ Suicide, and the Souls of Queer Folk
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2020
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While garnering the attention of professionals across disciplines, from medicine to public health to psychology, and frequently covered as a topic of public concern in the news media, the elevated occurrence of suicide attempts among LGBTQ persons has received little attention within the literature of theology and religious studies. This book fills that lacuna by addressing the role that religious, spiritual, and theological narratives play in shaping the souls of queer folk. Taking a narrative approach to qualitative interview material from LGBTQ individuals who survived their suicide attempts, Cody J. Sanders argues that theological narratives can operate violently upon the souls of LGBTQ people in ways that make life precarious and, at time, seem unlivable. The book critically addresses the violence of theological narratives upon queer souls, filling a crucial void in scholarship concerning the role of religion—specifically Christianity—in LGBTQ suicide. Ultimately, the author draws upon the interview material to move readers toward constructive methods of contributing to the resistance and resilience of queer souls in relation to soul violence, asking how we can intervene with practices of care in order to cultivate livability of life for queer people.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0609-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0610-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
141
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter One: God, Stories, and Queer Souls No access Pages 11 - 28
Chapter Two: Troubled Stories, Best Hopes, Precarious Survival No access Pages 29 - 50
Chapter Three: Theological Ambush No access Pages 51 - 64
Chapter Four: Soul Violence No access Pages 65 - 76
Chapter Five: Religious Resistance No access Pages 77 - 90
Chapter Six: Holding One’s Own No access Pages 91 - 104
Chapter Seven: Revisioning the Care of Souls No access Pages 105 - 116
