TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilcox,Melissa M.
TI  - Queer women and religious individualism
SN  - 9780253004024
AV  - HQ75.5 .W56 2009eb
U1  - 205/.66 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Bloomington, IN
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Lesbians
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - Religious life
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Lesbiennes
KW  - Californie
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ethics
KW  - fast
KW  - Spirituelle Bewegung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Lesbische Orientierung
KW  - Religiöses Bewusstsein
KW  - Lesbierin
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Religiosität
KW  - Individualität
KW  - Empirische Sozialforschung
KW  - Lesbiska
KW  - religion
KW  - andlighet
KW  - Förenta staterna
KW  - kao
KW  - Levnadsförhållanden
KW  - Lesbiska kvinnor
KW  - religiöst liv
KW  - sao
KW  - Religiöst liv
KW  - genusaspekter
KW  - Los Angeles, Calif
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index; Beyond the congregation -- Setting the stage : historical contexts -- Queering the spiritual marketplace -- Negotiating religion : continuity, conversion, innovation -- Tiles in the mosaic : organizations as resources -- Building a mosaic : the sacred (and the) self -- Queer women, religion, and postmodernity
N2  - Melissa M. Wilcox explores the complex spiritual lives of queer women in the Los Angeles area. She takes the reader on a tour of a colorful array of religious and secular groups that serve as spiritual resources for these women -- from the well-known Metropolitan Community Churches to Wiccan covens, from the Gay and Lesbian Sierrans to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Arguing that these women's stories are exemplary cases of postmodern patterns of religious identity, belief, and practice, Wilcox offer
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