This podcast aims to mark and celebrate an emerging theological and religious scholarship among religious people who self-identify as “queer”. Out of the Closet and into the pews aims to get us to understand that Queer Power is not inherently a secular movement, but rather many queer folk understand faith to be associated with their queerness.
Out of the Closet and Into the Pews
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This podcast aims to mark and celebrate an emerging theological and religious scholarship among religious people who self-identify as “queer”. Out of the Closet and into the pews aims to get us to understand that Queer Power is not inherently a secular movement, but rather many queer folk understand faith to be associated with their queerness.
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Recent Episodes
July 21, 2021
Religious Activism: A New Perspective of the American Political Landscape
<p>Dr. Todd Nicholas Fuist is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Illinois Wesleyan University. His research interests include religion, politics, identity, and sexuality, with a focus on how culture serves to motivate socio-moral action. His latest work with Dr. Ruth Braunstein and Dr. Rhys H. Williams, titled Religion and Progressive Activism: New Stories about Faith and Politics examines how terms such as "progressive" and "religious" may not seem to go hand-in-hand. This work focuses on the significant intersection of religion and activism, revealing that progressive religious activists are a driving force in American public life.</p> <p>Listen to Rachael and Dr. Fuist's conversation today where they talk common perceptions of religion, and offer a more grounded and nuanced understanding of religion and the American political landscape.</p>
July 14, 2021
Janet Jakobsen: Love the Sin & The Sex Obsession
<p>Dr. Janet R. Jakobsen is a world renowned scholar and Chair and Claire Tow Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College. Her academic focuses include feminist theory, queer theory, religion and politics, ethics, activism, and public policy. Her newest book The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion and power.</p> <p>Dr. Jakobsen speaks to Rachael today about how American politics are obsessed with sex. Rachael and Dr. Jakobsen also cover her book with Dr. Ann Pellegrini Love the Sin. Dr. Jakobsen shares her exploration of why secular institutions habitually use religion to regulate sexual life.</p>
July 6, 2021
Natural Enemies: The Short History of a Bad Assumption
<p>Dr. Heather R. White is a visiting assistant professor in religion and queer and gender studies at the University of Puget Sound. Their first book, Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights investigates how religion and LGBTQ+ activism can to be perceived as natural enemies. It also tells about the surprising ways that progressive Christianity shaped the early movement for gay rights.</p> <p>Dr. White speaks to Rachael today about the hidden histories of both sexuality and religion and points to the ruse in the 1970s of the predominantly gay Metropolitan Community Church movement as evidence that we can no longer assume that the histories of queer people and religion separate when the former becomes open and out of the closet. In doing so, Dr. White shares how this assumption has kept queer studies, and religious studies white.</p>
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