A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church - Couverture rigide

Seitz, David K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1517902134 ISBN 13 : 9781517902131

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2017

Synopsis

Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based emphasis on shared vulnerability leads it to engage in radical solidarity with asylum-seekers, pointing to the work of affect in radical, coalition politics.

A House of Prayer for All People maps the affective dimensions of the politics of citizenship at this church. For nearly three years, David K. Seitz regularly attended services at MCCT. He paid special attention to how community and citizenship are formed in a primarily queer Christian organization, focusing on four contemporary struggles: debates on race and gender in religious leadership, activism around police-minority relations, outreach to LGBT Christians transnationally, and advocacy for asylum seekers. Engaging in debates in cultural geography, queer of color critique, psychoanalysis, and affect theory, A House of Prayer for All People stages innovative, reparative encounters with citizenship and religion.

Building on queer theory's rich history of "subjectless" critique, Seitz calls for an "improper" queer citizenship--one that refuses liberal identity politics or national territory as the ethical horizon for sympathy, solidarity, rights, redistribution, or intimacy. Improper queer citizenship, he suggests, depends not only on "good politics" but also on people's capacity for empathy, integration, and repair.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David K. Seitz is assistant professor of cultural geography at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1517902134
• ISBN 13: 9781517902131
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 296
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