Special Section: Comparative X: Religious and Gendered Transitions: X MARKS OUR SPOTS: Religion and Gender in Transition

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Abstract

This article introduces the special section Comparative X: Religious and Gendered Transitions, linking the experiences of religious exes and transgender people through their mutual and different uses of “X” to mark liminal identity and status. Reframing religious disaffiliation through the lens of transition, the article presses on the overlap and intersection of religious and gendered movements to connect these different but related crossings as Xes. Through this crossed and comparative framework, it offers a way of looking at the norming systems of religion and gender together through the movements of those who cross them. Expanding comparative studies in religion through the interfaithless, it introduces comparative ex-religious studies as a new subfield. Drawing on the literature of religious disaffiliation and queer and transgender studies in religion, the article considers how changing the orientation through which we approach religion from its Xes might lead to a better understanding of how the normative structures of “religion” and “gender” shape one another transitively.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)117-145
Number of pages29
JournalJournal of Feminist Studies in Religion
Volume40
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2024
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • comparative religion
  • conversion
  • deconversion
  • ex-religion
  • Off the Derech
  • queer/trans phenomenology
  • queer/trans religion
  • religious disaffiliation
  • religious exit
  • transgender

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Gender Studies
  • Religious studies

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