Faith and religion

Hunt, Stephen

Abstract

This chapter investigates the impact of LGBT activist groups within the major world religions. It focuses upon a number of crucial variables which shape mobilisation and levels of success:
- The views of a particular religion in the way that it connects with the surrounding culture, raising pertinent questions as to how culture has historically shaped that religion as part of a reciprocal and on-going process;
- How the major faiths engage with the expansion of sexual minority rights emerging from the secular liberal democratic context;
- The degree to which such attitudes in the past and present are buttressed by interpretation of specific proof texts found in respective scriptures.

Citation

Hunt, S. (2015). Faith and religion. In D. Paternotte, & M. Tremblay (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism (234-271). Farnham: Ashgate

• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2015
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 234-271
• Book Title: The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism
• ISBN: 9781409457091
• Keywords: LGBT, religion, activism, rights
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/829104
• Publisher URL: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409457091