Work

Queering Buddhism or Buddhist De-Queering?

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: This article examines how multiple axes of difference — race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality — operate in the religious/spiritual lives of western convert LGBTQI Buddhists. Through an ethnographic study of a diverse LGBTQI Buddhist group in Oakland, California, it will reflect on emerging differences between western convert Buddhist LGBTQI practitioners. In particular, it examines how distinct populations of LGBTQI practitioners utilize the non-essentialist philosophy of Buddhism, showing how it can operate both conservatively as a way to reinforce heteronormativity and subversively as a way to challenge heteronormativity.

Source: Theology and Sexuality

DOI: 10.1179/1355835813z.00000000015

Author: Ann Gleig

Institution: University of Central Florida

Language: English

Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies

Subfield: Religious studies

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funder: Johns Hopkins University