Gay Men as Virtuosi of the Holy Art of Bricolage and as Tricksters of the Sacred
Organized around the anthropological concepts of ‘bricolage’, ‘bricoleur’, ‘cognitive mazeway’ and ‘trickster’, and partially based on ethnographic research, this article hypothesizes that: (1) by virtue of their exclusion from most of the world's religious traditions, queer men find themselves...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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Theology & sexuality
Year: 2007, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 9-27 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Trickster B Consciousness B Sexuality B Ritual B experiential anthropology B Gay men B Bricolage |
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| Summary: | Organized around the anthropological concepts of ‘bricolage’, ‘bricoleur’, ‘cognitive mazeway’ and ‘trickster’, and partially based on ethnographic research, this article hypothesizes that: (1) by virtue of their exclusion from most of the world's religious traditions, queer men find themselves in a kind of spiritual ‘Diaspora’; (2) gay men have been forced by circumstance to forge a diverse array of spiritual practices, re-interpret or invent alternative sacred myths, produce their own mystical writings, and form diverse intentional spiritual communities; (3) in becoming masters of bricolage, queer men unwittingly function in the role of the trickster figure for each other and for the wider heteronormative culture in which they are embedded; and (4) sex is one of the central axes around which their spiritual practices and spiritual experiences are organized. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1355835807082701 |