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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Main Author: Jesus, Aisha Mahina Beliso-de (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2023
In: 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
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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