Religion in the Closet: Heterosecularisms and Police-Practitioners of African Diaspora Religions
Drawing on ethnography with police officers in the United States, this article explores the policing of Africana, Afro-Latinx, and diaspora religions. This article demonstrates how state secularism is involved in the simultaneous gendering and racializing of African diaspora religions as criminal an...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
2023
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-26 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Police official
/ Afro-American syncretism
/ Discrimination
/ Criminalization
/ Secularism
/ Sexual minorities
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AX Inter-religious relations AZ New religious movements CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KBQ North America XA Law |
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| Summary: | Drawing on ethnography with police officers in the United States, this article explores the policing of Africana, Afro-Latinx, and diaspora religions. This article demonstrates how state secularism is involved in the simultaneous gendering and racializing of African diaspora religions as criminal and deviant. It illuminates the white-Christian Protestantism underlying the police state's secularism. By exploring how police officers who secretly practice African diaspora religions see themselves as being "in the closet" to their departments, it demonstrates how white-Christianity and heteronormativity are implicit to American secularist policing, what I term here heterosecularism. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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