Religion and Intersex

Budwey, Stephanie A.

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“…Rather, it should be a space where Christians respond to God's imperative to love and welcome all, where everyone truly has-in the words of Murray-"a place at the table." The goal must be what Roberto Che Espinoza describes as "trauma-informed, harm reduction liturgies" that create "conditions of livability" (Budwey 2023b, p. 198, quoting Henderson-Espinoza 2019. 17 By enacting a theology of "both/neither," liturgies of livability promote the full humanity and flourishing of LGBTQIA2S+ and nonbinary people by naming their existence, affirming them as made in God's image, and celebrating difference, diversity, and multiplicity.…”

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“…This paradigm is considered by many Christians to be "'natural' and 'God-given'" due to a sexually dimorphic interpretation of Genesis 1:27, which implies that "to be a human being made in the image of God means to be created 'clearly female' or 'clearly male'" (Budwey 2023b, p. 129). This sexually dimorphic understanding of Genesis 1:27 was the foundation for intersex activist Sally Gross being told "she 'does not satisfy the biblical criterion of humanity' because as an intersex person who is not 'determinately male or determinately female,' she does not 'satisfy the divine criterion for humanness'" (Budwey 2023b, p. 133, quoting Gross 1999. Furthermore, because of this sexually dimorphic reading of Genesis 1:27 that "God created all human beings determinately male or determinately female with nothing in between," Gross was told "that 'like dogs, cats and tins of tuna, [she is] not the kind of thing which could have been baptized validly" (Budwey 2023b, p. 133, quoting Gross 1999.…”

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“…This sexually dimorphic understanding of Genesis 1:27 was the foundation for intersex activist Sally Gross being told "she 'does not satisfy the biblical criterion of humanity' because as an intersex person who is not 'determinately male or determinately female,' she does not 'satisfy the divine criterion for humanness'" (Budwey 2023b, p. 133, quoting Gross 1999. Furthermore, because of this sexually dimorphic reading of Genesis 1:27 that "God created all human beings determinately male or determinately female with nothing in between," Gross was told "that 'like dogs, cats and tins of tuna, [she is] not the kind of thing which could have been baptized validly" (Budwey 2023b, p. 133, quoting Gross 1999. Those who uphold the paradigm of sexual dimorphism violently exclude and dehumanize anyone who does not fit into this socially constructed binary, to the point of calling them unbaptizable and not made in God's image.…”

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“…I believe the scripture teaches that God made male and female and all that lies between. (Damon 2023, p. Motivated by a 2022 presentation I gave on "Decolonizing Binary Language: Incorporating Intersex People in Congregational Song" (Budwey 2022) and conversations with Marissa Adams, an intersex woman, educator, and advocate, Damon wrote both "O God, you share your beauty" and "Intersex people" (Damon 2023, #31, pp. 102-3; see also Damon and Johnson 2023, pp.…”

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Liturgies of Livability or Liturgical Violence: What Kind of Space Is Christian Congregational Song Creating for LGBTQIA2S+ and Nonbinary People?

Budwey

2023

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The liturgy is one of the most important places in which people are formed theologically through components such as prayers, music, visual art, and preaching. Yet, depending on the theology that is expressed, the liturgy can be a place that heals or harms. Because LGBTQIA2S+ and nonbinary people are often excluded and made invisible in Christian worship, this article focuses on the importance of Christian congregational song and how—drawing from Nathan Myrick’s work—it can be ethical for LGBTQIA2S+ and nonbinary people when it contributes to their flourishing. First is an articulation of a theology of “both/neither” which (1) acknowledges that LGBTQIA2S+ and nonbinary people exist, (2) is based on a sexually polymorphic reading of Genesis 1:27 and asserts that LGBTQIA2S+ and nonbinary people are made in God’s image, and (3) celebrates difference, diversity, and multiplicity. Next is a discussion of how enacting a theology of “both/neither” in the liturgy creates liturgies of livability for LGBTQIA2S+ and nonbinary people, whereas when it is not, it inflicts liturgical violence. This article concludes by exploring examples from Christian congregational song that support liturgies of livability through their expression of a theology of “both/neither.”

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Liturgies of Livability or Liturgical Violence: What Kind of Space Is Christian Congregational Song Creating for LGBTQIA2S+ and Nonbinary People?

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2023

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“…We analyze musical diversity in Mennonite hymnals with the assumption that diversity is valuable for Christian communities (for more on that topic, see Marti 2012;Van Opstal 2016;Whitla 2020). Our argument is related, though distinct, from analyses of how textual metaphors or choices of language represent or exclude people from worship experiences (see Budwey 2022;Johnson and Tice 2022;Graber 2020b;Procter-Smith 1990). This article is not a practical manual for how to introduce new songs or how to lead a community toward musical diversity-those important resources exist elsewhere (for example, Bell 2001;Weidler et al 2017;The Hymn Society n.d.).…”

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Publishing Privileges the Published: An Analysis of Gender, Class, and Race in the Hymnological Feedback Loop

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Loepp Thiessen

2023

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Hymnal curation processes have for centuries maintained restrictive feedback loops: material that has been published elsewhere continues to be published, and new material—particularly when it offers something unique—is evaluated against the criteria of what has gone before. This results in hymnals that tend to over-represent the work of white male contributors from a Euro–American perspective and limits the amount of material by women, people of color, and contributors from around the world. Since the mid-to-late twentieth century, when some denominations have sought to diversify their worship music collections, change has come slowly. Contemporary hymnody and contemporary worship music are predominantly written by men, and additions of global song have relied on a narrow swath of scholars and publications. To understand some of the power imbalances embedded in church music publishing, we use Voices Together, the 2020 Mennonite hymnal for which we were committee members, as a case study. We explore how this new collection came to include only about 45 newly published songs out of the total of 749 songs, and we analyze statistics related to gender and global song. An intersectional approach allows us to examine how musical actors are marginalized in multiple ways, considering prejudice against class, race, and gender. Understanding how current collections are informed by previously published collections, and consequently how the demographics of contributors have shifted over time, explains how publishing privileges the published and offers insight needed to begin to rectify this problem.

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Mairinger-Immisch

2023

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Intergeschlechtlichkeit bekommt verstärkt mediale Aufmerksamkeit - nicht aber in der katholischen Kirche und Theologie. Ausgehend von den religionssoziologischen Beobachtungen Pierre Bourdieus als auch von der freiheitstheologischen Anthropologie Thomas Pröppers wirft Katharina Mairinger-Immisch einen kritischen Blick auf die katholische Geschlechteranthropologie. Sie entwickelt dabei eine geschlechterinklusive Ethik, die die Haltung der Ambiguitätstoleranz fordert und fördert: eine Handlungsorientierung für die Anerkennung intergeschlechtlicher Menschen.

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Religion and Intersex

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Liturgies of Livability or Liturgical Violence: What Kind of Space Is Christian Congregational Song Creating for LGBTQIA2S+ and Nonbinary People?

Liturgies of Livability or Liturgical Violence: What Kind of Space Is Christian Congregational Song Creating for LGBTQIA2S+ and Nonbinary People?

Publishing Privileges the Published: An Analysis of Gender, Class, and Race in the Hymnological Feedback Loop

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