Blogging while gay and Christian: Andrew Sullivan and the production of the religious, secular, and sexual
This article examines blogger and political pundit Andrew Sullivan's performance of gay Christian identity through his weblog, "The dish". Through a reading of the repetitive and collaborative nature of "The dish" as a medium of cultural production, I argue that Sullivan...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2015]
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| In: |
Culture and religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 66-86 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sullivan, Andrew 1963-
/ USA
/ Homosexuality
/ Catholicism
/ Web log
/ Religiosity
/ Secularism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBQ North America KDB Roman Catholic Church NCF Sexual ethics |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | This article examines blogger and political pundit Andrew Sullivan's performance of gay Christian identity through his weblog, "The dish". Through a reading of the repetitive and collaborative nature of "The dish" as a medium of cultural production, I argue that Sullivan's gay Christian performance is made legible by how the religious and secular are articulated and negotiated through the site of the body in American culture. Sullivan's performance both reproduces and resists religious and secular normativities while at the same time produces a singular identity with distinct political and social advantages. Among other advantages, examining how the religious and secular are articulated through everyday discourse and embodied performance exposes some of the political investments in this articulation and provides a space to consider the stakes of scholars" own investments in 'secular' knowledge. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-5610 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2015.1019897 |