Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion

Melissa M. Wilcox is Professor, Holstein Family and Community Chair, and Department Chair in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

• 1. Editor’s Introduction.- 2. Transing Religious Studies/Religioning Trans Studies: A Rough Guide.- 3. Reimagining Religious Studies through Postcolonial, Intersectional, and Queer Frameworks: From Deessentialization, Deconstruction, and Disidentification to Agency, Human Flourishing, Minor Discourses, and Becoming.- 4. Religion and Queer Theory.- 5. Sex, Bodies, and Religion: Toward an Ecstatic Method.- 6. Advocating for Inclusion.- 7. Religion and Queer Politics: OneLove, Many Questions.- 8. Religion and Trans Politics.- 9. Activist Scholarship, Or Why Method Matters for Justice.- 10. Queering Religious Practices in Changing Denominational and Social Contexts: Reflections from Religious Same-Sex Union Ceremonies.- 11. Transing Religious Practices: Spiritual Technologies for Self-Affirmation.- 12. Queer and Trans Rituals of Mourning and Celebration: Liminality as Remaining .- Queer and Trans Religion in Art.- 13. Performance and Ritual.- 14. Queer Dharmology.-15. Queer and Transgender Christianities in Asia.- 16. Queer and Trans African Theologies.- 17. Queer and Trans Jewish Theologies.- 18. Trans and Queer Christian Theologies.- 19. Trans and Queer Latin American Theologies.- 20. Drawing Down the Rainbow: Queer and Trans Perspectives in Contemporary Paganism.- 21. Coming to Terms with Trans- and Queerness in Buddhist Texts.- 22. Quran and Ḥadīth.- 23. Biblical Studies.- 24. Queer and Trans Torah: Horizons of Possibility.- 25. Restoring Queer, Transgender, Christian Histories: Visibility in the Face of Erasure.- 26. Afro-Diasporic Religions and Black Atlantic Traditions.- 27. Queering Pentecostalism.