Valentine, G and Waite, LJ (2012) Negotiating difference through everyday encounters: The case of sexual orientation and religion and belief. Antipode: a radical journal of geography, 44 (2). 474 - 492. ISSN 0066-4812
Abstract
This paper argues for geographers to be more attentive to the potentially competing values, interests, and rights of the equality strands (race, gender, disability, religion and belief, sexual orientation, age). We focus on two that are most commonly assumed to experience tensions: religion/belief and sexual orientation. Drawing on focus groups with heterosexual Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Hindus and lesbian and gay people of faith we explore the attitudes of heterosexual people of faith towards homosexuality. These findings suggest that tensions should be emerging between these groups in public space. However, we then demonstrate that these anticipated conflicts are not emerging because of the strategies people employ for separating their beliefs from their everyday conduct. In such ways, our findings demonstrate how the “what is” (ie personal experience) for both heterosexual and lesbian and gay people of faith is prioritised over theological or institutional perspectives of “what ought to be”.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2011 The Authors Antipode© 2011 Editorial Board of Antipode. This is the accepted version of the following article: Valentine, G. and Waite, L. (2012), Negotiating Difference through Everyday Encounters: The Case of Sexual Orientation and Religion and Belief. Antipode, 44: 474–492, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00866.x |
Keywords: | religion and belief; sexual orientation; encounter; intersectionality; equality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2014 15:18 |
Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2014 15:18 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00866.x |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00866.x. |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81287 |