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Publication Date: 2021
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The Precarity of LGBTQ Catholic (Religious) Educators: A Theological Provocation to Teaching as a Call
Religious Education, v116 n5 p454-466 2021
This article addresses a gap in research on LGBTQ inclusion in Catholic schools that has largely been silent on the experiences of non-heterosexual Catholic teachers. I consider how Judith Butler's conception of precarity sheds light on the complex positionality of LGBTQ Catholic (religious) educators in the heteronormative setting of Catholic schools. This precarity, I argue, ought to provoke us to reclaim an incarnational theology of teaching as a call, which counters a restrictive language of ministerial identity that has been used against them to maintain the heteronormative ecclesial discourse on sexuality in the Catholic church.
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Catholics, Religious Education, Teacher Characteristics, Sexuality, Social Bias, Moral Values, Identification (Psychology), Philosophy
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Language: English
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