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The edited volume Queer spiritual spaces deals with an interesting and important topic: exploring the locations and spaces of queer spirituality in a reflexive as well as an empirical perspective. Three of the chapters are more general and reflective in nature. In the introductory chapter, for instance, Sally Munt describes the background and scholarly context of the volume, emphasising the recent spatial turn (with reference to the academic tradition of cultural geographers that have followed the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre) and issues regarding contemporary religious change. The following chapter by Andrew Yip provides a very clear, concise overview of predominant themes in previous research on LGBTQI and religion. Finally, Kath Browne claims that ‘. . . we need to take a more nuanced approach to our approaches to religious institutions and spiritual communities (. . .) asking why some spaces within religious/spiritual communities are used and experienced as aggressively and subtly heteronormative, yet some are not explicitly so’ (pp. 239-240). This emerges naturally from the complexity of the volume as a whole: how queer spiritualities are not only ‘spiritualities of life’ but also strongly linked to public and institutional religion. Thus the editors’ contributions point to the need
Journal of Empirical Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2012
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