Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults
This paper examines the understandings and practices of 515 heterosexual religious young adults living in the UK in terms of their religious faith and sexuality. It presents qualitative and quantitative data drawn from uestionnaires, interviews, and video diaries. Four themes are explored. First, pa...
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| author | Yip, Andrew Kam-Tuck Page, Sarah-Jane |
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| description | This paper examines the understandings and practices of 515 heterosexual religious young adults living in the UK in terms of their religious faith and sexuality. It presents qualitative and quantitative data drawn from uestionnaires, interviews, and video diaries. Four themes are explored. First, participants generally understood sexuality in relation to sacred discourses. Second, regardless of gender and religious identification, the participants drew from religious (e.g. religious community) and social (i.e. friends) influences to construct their sexual values and attitudes. Third, the religious and familial spaces within which the participants inhabited were structured by heteronormative assumptions. Thus, the participants must negotiate dominant norms, particularly those pertaining to marriage and sex within it. Finally, the paper focuses on married participants, offering insights into their motivations for, and experiences of, marriage. Overall, the paper demonstrates that, like their lesbian and gay counterparts, heterosexual religious young adults also had to manage various competing and mutually-reinforcing sexual and religious norms in constructing a meaningful life. |
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| spelling | nottingham-332472020-05-04T16:47:24Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33247/ Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults Yip, Andrew Kam-Tuck Page, Sarah-Jane This paper examines the understandings and practices of 515 heterosexual religious young adults living in the UK in terms of their religious faith and sexuality. It presents qualitative and quantitative data drawn from uestionnaires, interviews, and video diaries. Four themes are explored. First, participants generally understood sexuality in relation to sacred discourses. Second, regardless of gender and religious identification, the participants drew from religious (e.g. religious community) and social (i.e. friends) influences to construct their sexual values and attitudes. Third, the religious and familial spaces within which the participants inhabited were structured by heteronormative assumptions. Thus, the participants must negotiate dominant norms, particularly those pertaining to marriage and sex within it. Finally, the paper focuses on married participants, offering insights into their motivations for, and experiences of, marriage. Overall, the paper demonstrates that, like their lesbian and gay counterparts, heterosexual religious young adults also had to manage various competing and mutually-reinforcing sexual and religious norms in constructing a meaningful life. Brill Piedmont, Ralph L. Village, Andrew 2014-06-01 Book Section PeerReviewed Yip, Andrew Kam-Tuck and Page, Sarah-Jane (2014) Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults. In: Research in the social scientific study of religion, Volume 25. Brill, Leiden, pp. 78-108. ISBN 9789004272255 Heterosexuality multi-faith sexuality religious faith heteronormativity marriage. http://www.brill.com/products/book/research-social-scientific-study-religion |
| spellingShingle | Heterosexuality multi-faith sexuality religious faith heteronormativity marriage. Yip, Andrew Kam-Tuck Page, Sarah-Jane Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults |
| title | Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults |
| title_full | Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults |
| title_fullStr | Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults |
| title_full_unstemmed | Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults |
| title_short | Religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults |
| title_sort | religious faith and heterosexuality: a multi-faith exploration of young adults |
| topic | Heterosexuality multi-faith sexuality religious faith heteronormativity marriage. |
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