TY - JOUR
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AB - <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
<jats:p>This article draws on accounts of how Ethiopian Orthodox Christian queer women relate to Saint Mary to foreground an aspect of intimacy that goes beyond the object of sexual desire. By studying relationships with nonhuman agents such as saints, the article demonstrates how queer subjects cultivate intimacies that go beyond and outside the dominant way of relating to the deities. In queer women’s praxis, intimacy’s formations and manifestations expose the lurking shades and shadows of intimacy and complicate what seems to be an accepted norm that dictates how to be close to Saint Mary. Further, by highlighting the spiritual life of queer women, this article joins the scholarship that problematises the assumption that religious and sexual identities are (or should be) mutually exclusive.</jats:p>
TI - ‘She Is Like Your Favourite Aunt’
JF - Journal of Religion in Africa
DO - 10.1163/15700666-12340327
DA - 2025-01-24
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/crossref/she-is-like-your-favourite-aunt-mqzJtjcif4
SP - 1
EP - 20
DP - DeepDyve
ER -