Conformity and resistance in personalized same-sex prayer rituals in Finland
This article studies the experiences of same-sex couples in connection with a prayer ritual conducted over their registered partnerships and focuses on the pre-legal context of same-sex marriage in Finland. The aim is to analyze conformity and resistance in the participants' understanding of pe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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Theology & sexuality
Year: 2019, Volume: 25, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 81-97 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko
/ Homosexual couple
/ Cohabitation agreements
/ Ritual
/ Prayer
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia KDD Protestant Church NCF Sexual ethics RC Liturgy |
| Further subjects: | B
Resistance
B same-sex partnership B Personalization B Finland B Ritual B Conformity |
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| Summary: | This article studies the experiences of same-sex couples in connection with a prayer ritual conducted over their registered partnerships and focuses on the pre-legal context of same-sex marriage in Finland. The aim is to analyze conformity and resistance in the participants' understanding of personalized ritual through Grimes's categories of language, space, time, and actors. The findings reveal that most of the rituals had both elements of resistance that were understood as following a same-sex culture and of conformity with heterosexual nuptial traditions. Double affiliation with Christian and gay culture produces complex forms of conformity and resistance. Personalization of the religious rituals was more important to the participants of the study than following heterosexual traditions. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1594009 |