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Pyvovarova, Nadiya. "Religion and religiosity in the system of values and life priorities of Ukrainians." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 74-75 (September 8, 2015): 155–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2015.74-75.570.

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This article analyzes some aspects of the modern Ukrainian values, including religion and religiosity in the system of values and priorities in life. It describes the relationship between religious self-identification and some of their values and philosophical positions. It is concluded that the primary value in contemporary Ukrainian society, regardless of religious self-identify, is a family. Having faith (according to self-identification as a believer) is a kind of internal moral and ethical code. According to empirical indicators of people who consider themselves believers, they are more responsible towards institute of family. Individuals with certain religious beliefs, compared to non-believers are more negative towards social issues such as bribery, using office, prostitution, homosexuality, drug addiction and have higher moral expectation for their own behavior.

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González Pérez, María De Jesús. "Minar el principio de laicidad: discurso de la Iglesia Católica sobre la homosexualidad en México." La Manzana de la Discordia 8, no. 2 (2016): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.25100/lamanzanadeladiscordia.v8i2.1539.

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Resumen: Con base en una investigación histórico-sociológica este artículo ofrece un ejercicio refl exivosobre la postura que sostiene la Iglesia católica enMéxico frente al tema de la homosexualidad. El análisisdel discurso resulta útil para comprender la concepciónque tiene dicha institución religiosa acerca de estaorientación sexual. A través de la expresión verbal setiende a confi gurar una determinada representaciónde las personas. El discurso tiene la capacidad no sólode expresar un pensamiento, sino también de asignarsignifi cados, construir escenarios mentales y socialesque pueden reproducirse. Los pronunciamientos de lajerarquía católica respecto a la cuestión homosexual,pueden incidir en conductas como la exclusión o ladiscriminación, debido a la fuerza de la palabra ya la exhibición de sus aparatos enunciativos. Estopuede minar el principio de laicidad, en rasgos que loconstituyen como la convivencia social, el respeto a losderechos humanos y a la soberanía de los individuos,sobre todo, en ámbitos cruciales de la vida humana,como la elección de sus relaciones afectivas y sexuales.Palabras clave: discurso, Iglesia Católica,homosexualidad, laicidad.Undermining the Principle of Secularism.Discourse of the Catholic Church on Homosexualityin MexicoAbstract: On the basis of historico-sociologicalresearch this article offers a refl ective exercise on theposition the Catholic Church in Mexico holds on theissue of homosexuality. Discourse analysis is useful forunderstanding the concept of that religious institutionabout this sexual orientation. Verbal expression tends toset a specifi c representation of people. Speech has theability not only to express a thought, but also to assignmeanings, mental and social scenarios that can bereplicated. The Catholic hierarchy’s pronouncements onthe issue of homosexual behavior can affect the exclusionor discrimination because of the power of words and thedisplay of their expository devices. This may underminethe principle of secularism, in such aspects as socialcoexistence, respect for human rights and sovereignty ofindividuals, especially in a crucial area of human life, thechoice of affective and sex relationships.Key words: speech, Catholic Church, homosexuality,secularism.

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Libiran, Timothy John DC, Rowie Lawrence C. Cepeda, Camille Krisandrea M. Ramos, John Carlo O. Alano, and Michael Jo S. Guballa. "Understanding the Challenges Faced by Filipino LGBTQ+ Individuals with Strong Religious Ties." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science VIII, no. I (2024): 2520–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.47772/ijriss.2024.801186.

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The Philippines is renowned for its deep religiosity, providing hope and support to its citizens. However, this religiosity presents a paradox, as some church teachings openly oppress and stigmatize LGBTQ+ individuals, branding homosexuality as morally wrong. This study explored the complex conflicts experienced by LGBTQ+ Filipinos with strong religious ties and how their faith either supports or exacerbates their challenges. Prior research consistently shows that LGBTQ+ encounter discrimination and degradation within their religious communities, driven by unjust treatment. Employing a phenomenological qualitative approach with in-depth interviews, this study examines Filipino LGBTQ+ individuals aged 18 and above. The findings unveil the multifaceted conflicts participants face, notably inequitable and oppressive treatment within their religious communities. Ecclesiastical dilemmas emerge, primarily due to discrimination, humiliation, and exclusion from the church and its members, stemming from flawed teachings categorizing LGBTQ+ individuals as morally wrong. Perceptions of support from their religion reveal a dual nature. Participants find positive support within their faith, receiving solace from select individuals who encourage focusing on the positive aspects of their religious experience. Conversely, they report negative effects from the church’s problematic teachings, leading to isolation and a lack of support that significantly impacts their well-being. This study contributes to understanding the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ individuals, especially within religious contexts, emphasizing the need for increased awareness and correction of misguided beliefs and teachings. The research strives to create a more inclusive and safer environment for all individuals, irrespective of gender or identity, fostering a more accepting and understanding society.

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MYERS, ROBERT, and NADA SAAB. "Sufism and Shakespeare: The Poetics of Personal and Political Transformation in Sa'dallah Wannus's Tuqus al-Isharat wa-l-Tahawwulat." Theatre Research International 38, no. 2 (2013): 124–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883313000229.

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Tuqus al-Isharat wa-l-Tahawwulat, one of the last major plays by the Syrian Sa'dallah Wannus, published in 1994, is one of the most innovative plays from the Arab world in the twentieth century. Based on a historical incident, it dramatizes the story of the fall of the Naqib of Damascus when he is arrested with his mistress Warda. The Naqib's enemy, the Mufti, saves him from disgrace by substituting the Naqib's wife, Mu'mina, for Warda, although Mu'mina leaves the Naqib and becomes a notorious prostitute. The play also overtly treats male homosexuality. Previous analyses of Wannus's plays have focused on the influence of Brecht and the Thousand and One Nights, and criticism of this play's feminist theme. This article argues that much of the play's novelty and aesthetic power derive from aspects of Shakespeare, principally Measure for Measure, and from motifs, lexicon and ritual theatricality derived from Sufism as aesthetic form and religious practice.

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Koeswinarno, Koeswinarno, and Mutolehudin Mustolehudin. "Islam, gay, and marginalization: a study on the religious behaviours of gays in Yogyakarta." Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies 7, no. 1 (2017): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/ijims.v7i1.125-152.

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0px; "> Man does not intend to be born gay, whose existence is not welcomed in the society including within his spiritual religious expressions. In Wonosobo, in the year of 2016, a marriage ceremony almost happened between a male and a male. This phenomenon is interesting to be studied in detail. In a specific way, this article uncovers the religious behaviours of gays in Yogyakarta. Usingan anthropological approach, the researchers were directly involved in the subjects’ lives in the social, economic, cultural, and religious aspects. In texts, same-sex relationships were found in the narratives of Prophet Luth written in the Al-Quran books Al-A’raf verse 81, Al-Shu’ara’ verses 165-166, An-Nisa verse 16, and Hud verses 77-83. These verses are used as the basis for rejecting homosexuality. From the social life happening in Yogyakarta there arise conflicts between the gays and their families so that they run away from their families to join gay communities and form economic and even religious groups.Furthermore, in their citizenship status, there is marginalization or administrative abuse for their identities in the identification card.Manusia tidak berniat untuk dilahirkan sebagai gay, yang keberadaannya tidak disambut baik di masyarakat termasuk dalam ungkapan spiritualnya. Di Wonosobo, pada tahun 2016, sebuah upacara pernikahan hampir terjadi antara sesama jenis lelaki. Fenomena ini menarik untuk dikaji secara detail. Artikel ini mengungkap perilaku religius kaum gay di Yogyakarta. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan antropologis, peneliti secara langsung terlibat dalam kehidupan subyekdalam aspek sosial, ekonomi, budaya, dan agama. Dalam teks, hubungan sesama jenis ditemukan dalam narasi Nabi Luth yang ditulis dalam buku Al-Quran AlA’raf ayat 81, ayat Al-Shu’ara 165-166, An-Nisa ayat 16, dan ayat-ayat Hud 77- 83. Ayat-ayat ini digunakan sebagai dasar untuk menolak homoseksualitas. Dalam kehidupan sosial di Yogyakarta, timbul konflik antara kaum gay dan keluarga mereka. Konflik ini membuat mereka melarikan diri dari keluarga dan bergabung dengan komunitas gay dan membentuk kelompok ekonomi dan bahkan kelompok keagamaan. Dalam status kewarganegaraan, mereka mengalami marginalisasi atau penyalahgunaan administratif dalam kartu identitas mereka.

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Muis, Quita, Inge Sieben, Tim Reeskens, and Loek Halman. "Seksueel-ethische permissiviteit: trends in Nederland 1981-2017." Mens en maatschappij 94, no. 4 (2019): 429–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/mem2019.4.004.muis.

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Abstract In this study, we explore trends in sexual-ethical permissiveness in the Netherlands during the last decades. Using Dutch data from the European Values Study (1981-2017), we show that tolerance towards homosexuality, abortion, divorce, euthanasia, and suicide increased in this period. About a third of this trend can be explained by cohort replacement: because younger, more permissive cohorts slowly replace older, less permissive cohorts, the moral climate in society changes. In turn, the differences in sexual-ethical permissiveness between cohorts can be explained by differences in level of education, church attendance and religious socialization. At the same time, the results of the counterfactual analyses show that all groups in Dutch society, including the lower educated and churchgoers, have become more permissive about sexual-ethical aspects of life. Apparently, a moral progressive consensus is present in the Netherlands. Finally, our results show that the youngest cohort, born between 1990 and 1999, appears somewhat less permissive than older cohorts. If these more conservative moral convictions persist in the future and are present in new generations as well, there may be a cultural backlash.

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Berrada, Taïeb. "Homosexualité, Islam et désacralisation du pouvoir royal dans Le jour du Roi d'Abdellah Taïa." Dalhousie French Studies, no. 117 (March 29, 2021): 127–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1076097ar.

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In his novel Le jour du Roi Abdellah Taïa explores the theme of alterity in its relation to two political and symbolic forces: expressing one’s self in the language of the Other and narrating homo-erotic and homosexual relationships in Morocco under the dictatorship of Hassan II. It is the translation of these two aspects that leads to the creation of a new narrative about homosexual Franco-Moroccan identity. This narrative, in turn, reveals the instability of a model of identification subjected to a normalizing sexual apparatus controlling bodies and minds in a place where homosexuality is still punishable by law. This renders the identification process for the two main characters of the novel particularly problematic as they can no longer sustain it without going back to the sources of foundational myths and more particularly to the original murder in Islam. This article argues that the killing of one character by the other goes back to the original murder of Abel by Cain, a model which becomes emancipated from the Western Oedipal complex, translating a new conception of a love relation between two male characters. By so doing, it calls for a reevaluation of the normativity imposed by the king who is using his power based on a patriarchal interpretation of religious legitimacy in view of political gain.

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Sajan, Neha Grace. "Unravelling the Queer Space: Understanding Sexuality through the Works of Janice Pariat." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 5 (2021): 179–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i5.11058.

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The project entitled “Unravelling the queer space: Understanding sexuality through the works of Janice Pariat” to examine the elements of sexual being from a queer perspective. There is always a politics that happens within the space of one’s sexual and spiritual prominence. Thereby, a binary construction always happens and a stereotypical connotation happens for the same. Homosexuality is always subjected to suppression and non-normative within the society that upholds homophobia, heteronormativity and hetero-centrism. These are the results of the culturally imposed norms on the society. Understanding the deviance that happens in one’s sexuality is an important area of concern. Talking about these aspects free from bias and prejudice is the freedom that can be gained. Society always has a violent approach towards people who deviate from the accepted norms leading to marginalization. One of the important factors that sideline with this idea is the impact of religion on an individual. Spiritual space and belief system are induced right from the childhood. Religious texts clearly define sexualities that deviate from the expected norms as abnormal or a taboo. The study is to break down the binary existence of one’s sexual and spiritual space and how the deviance in sexualities pave way to attain a new spiritual growth.

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Krason, Steven M. "Old and New Tyrannies Borne of Lust." Catholic Social Science Review 24 (2019): 247–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/cssr2019243.

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This was one of SCSS President Stephen M. Krason’s “Neither Left nor Right, but Catholic” columns that appear monthly in Crisis and The Wanderer. In it, he discusses how the current oppressive actions directed against those who oppose or dissent on religious grounds to various aspects of the sexual revolution—such as the agenda of the homosexualist movement—are in line with the oppressive actions directed against those who opposed blatant sexual immorality by politically powerful figures at earlier historical times, such as King Henry VIII in England. Effectively, sexual immorality has at times in history paved the way for political tyranny and reshaped nations.

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Koesbardiati, Toetik, Sri Endah Kinasih, and Siti Mas’udah. "INTEGRATING THE ROLES OF STAKEHOLDERS IN PREVENTING THE HIV/AIDS TRANSMISSION IN EAST JAVA, INDONESIA." Indonesian Journal of Tropical and Infectious Disease 6, no. 5 (2017): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/ijtid.v6i5.4792.

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HIV/AIDS prevention is very important and absolutely necessary. HIV transmission is now entering a fairly alarming level, in which people with HIV/AIDS in certain subpopulations are emerging. Special steps and resources are thus needed to cope with the condition. There are some phenomena potentially encourage HIV transmissions, such as the increasingly common free sex, homosexuality, the use of unsafe and unsterile syringes in narcotics consumption, commercial sex workers and various high-risk sexual activities. One of the crucial concerns that arises when sending prostitutes back to their hometowns without any coordinated and holistic mechanism is that the prostitutes may cause the spreading of HIV/AIDS in their hometowns. The research objective is to provide the material (input) how the prostitutes themselves may cause the spreading of HIV/AIDS. The research employed descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The results showed that the implementation and the role division in the closure have been highly coordinated and holistic. The leading sector in the role division is the Social Welfare epartment of the Government in Surabaya. In terms of health aspects for the former prostitutes sent back to their hometowns, there has been no policies related to medical screening designed to identify the disease early. Screening is very important for early diagnosis during the post-closure phase. The screening mechanism is that the Provincial Health Department has to optimize the monitoring, coordination, cooperation, agreements and partnerships with stakeholders such as the Local Health Department and the National/Provincial/Distric AIDS Commission, NGOs that are concerned with the problems of HIV-AIDS, international organizations, professional organizations, community leaders, religious leaders and universities.

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Abraham, K. C., and Ajit K. Abraham. "Homosexuality." Ecumenical Review 50, no. 1 (1998): 22–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.1998.tb00321.x.

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Isaak, Paul John. "Homosexuality." Ecumenical Review 50, no. 1 (1998): 71–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.1998.tb00327.x.

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Newlands, G. M. "Book Reviews : Homosexuality." Expository Times 115, no. 8 (2004): 286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001452460411500824.

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Baber, H. E. "Is Homosexuality Sexuality?" Theology 107, no. 837 (2004): 169–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040571x0410700303.

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Lienemann, Wolfgang. "Churches and Homosexuality." Ecumenical Review 50, no. 1 (1998): 7–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.1998.tb00320.x.

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Azam, Farhan, and Waqar Ahmad. "People's Perception towards the Causes of Homosexuality." Qlantic Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 3, no. 2 (2022): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.55737/qjssh.098271402.

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The main goals of the current study, "People's Perception Toward the Causes of Homosexuality," were to identify the various social factors that contribute to homosexuality and to assess the relationship between independent variables (economic aspects, psychological aspects, cultural aspects, and social aspects) and dependent variables (Homosexuality). From the overall population of 6736 people, a sample size of 67responders (all men) was chosen using a straightforward random technique. A thoughtfully constructed interview was used to gather the data. Using the use of the Frequency Distribution statistical approach and SPSS version 20, the acquired data was examined. The percentages in this section represented the respondents' answers. It included demographic information as well as dependent and independent variables. According to the study, the majority of respondents, or (77.61 %), believed that poverty is the main cause of homosexuality, while (94.0%) believed that homosexuality is a distinct behaviour that an individual adopts of their own volition. Moreover, 86.56% of respondents thought that homosexualitywas also caused by boys dancing. Whereas (86%) of respondents asserted that homosexuality is also caused by a lack of moral principles. Based on the study's findings, it was suggested as a policy recommendation to encourage moral values, eradicate poverty, and minimise homosexuality.

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Yarotskiy, Petro L. "Issues of marriage and family with regard in the context of woman’s innovative role in Catholic Church." Religious Freedom, no. 21 (December 21, 2018): 64–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/rs.2018.21.1221.

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The article is based on the value of the human personality and the principle of mercy proposed by Pope Francis. It explores the threats to the modern functioning of the Catholic Church in the context of globalization and secularization of the issues of marriage and family that were submitted to discussion and decision-making by the Extraordinary Synod of the Catholic Church Bishops holding in 2014 – 2016 in Rome. The work of this Synod proved the conservatism and the lack of readiness of the synodal bishops to resolve the crisis situation with modern family which was assessed by Francis as a crisis of synodality and the bishops’ opposition to the modern Catholic Church reform. In order to overcome these negative factors Pope Francis decided to change in a categorical way the current salutation with the clergy's frames formation and processing of an innovative "theology of women" which would become a determining factor in the church’s reform and replace the modern formation of the conservative clergy. The purpose of this study is to identify and characterize the causes and consequences of the modern family’s crisis from theological and religious points of view. As a result of this study it has been proved that cardinals and bishops of the Extraordinary Synod ambiguously and conservatively assess the complex problems of the modern family. And so they appeared to be unable to offer actual preventions to overcome this crisis. The factors of the crisis state of the modern family are revealed and characterized in the further aspects: during last 25 years (in the crossing of second and third millennia) the Catholic Church has lost from 15 up to 30 percent of its parishioners in many countries particularly in Europe and in Latin America; in such circumstances according to Francis the issues of marriage and family are such issues that "disturb” the society and church" since the western ritual parishioners no longer accept church marriages, divorce and marry again outside the church (therefore the church does not recognize such marriages) in the consequence of thereof the exclusion of these people from the church takes place; such form of marital intimate relationships as concubinage is constantly increasing (long-term extra-marital cohabitation with an unmarried woman) that is family status by "faith" not being the official marriage (in the words of people "without a stamp in the passport"); the number of families with mixed-confessional couples and with the problem of denominational education of children is constantly increasing; homosexuality and same-sex marriages acquire legitimacy; the natural conception and birth of children is replaced by surrogate motherhood. Key words: marriage, family, human dignity, mercy, conservatism of the clergy, church reform, "theology of women".

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BLACK, Peter. "Revisions of Homosexuality." Louvain Studies 25, no. 1 (2000): 72–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/ls.25.1.583423.

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Griffiths, Brian, Cynthia Dixon, Gordon Stanley, and Robert Weiland. "Religious orientation and attitudes towards homosexuality." Australian Journal of Psychology 53, no. 1 (2001): 12–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049530108255116.

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Nugent, Robert. "Homosexuality and Magisterial Teaching." Irish Theological Quarterly 53, no. 1 (1987): 66–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002114008705300105.

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Serapion, Bishop. "Homosexuality and the Church." Ecumenical Review 50, no. 1 (1998): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-6623.1998.tb00328.x.

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Ross, Michael W. "Social and Behavioral Aspects of Male Homosexuality." Medical Clinics of North America 70, no. 3 (1986): 537–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0025-7125(16)30938-5.

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DE COCK, Bernard. "Homosexuality and Sexual Difference." Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 81, no. 4 (2005): 334–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/etl.81.4.2004473.

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Sneed, Roger A. "Personal Reflections onRepresentations of Homosexuality." Black Theology 10, no. 3 (2012): 251–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/blth.v10i3.251.

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Williams, Bruce. "Homosexuality: The New Vatican Statement." Theological Studies 48, no. 2 (1987): 259–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004056398704800202.

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Coleman, Gerald D. "The Vatican Statement on Homosexuality." Theological Studies 48, no. 4 (1987): 727–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004056398704800406.

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Wilkinson, John. "Book Reviews : The Homosexuality Debate." Expository Times 106, no. 9 (1995): 286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001452469510600926.

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Nash, Peter T. "Response to Sayler on Homosexuality." Dialog: A Journal of Theology 44, no. 1 (2005): 95–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0012-2033.2005.00244.x.

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Reiss, Michael J. "Teaching about Homosexuality and Heterosexuality." Journal of Moral Education 26, no. 3 (1997): 343–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0305724970260308.

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Cao, Hui, Peng Wang, and Yuanyuan Gao. "A Survey of Chinese University Students' Perceptions of and Attitudes Towards Homosexuality." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 38, no. 6 (2010): 721–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2010.38.6.721.

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This paper was an investigation of Chinese university students' perceptions of and beliefs about homosexuality, their attitudes towards homosexuality, and the relationship between the two aspects. A total of 500 students from 3 universities in China were sampled. The results were as follows: (i) Of the 4 variables examined, the differences between participants' perceptions and attitudes were significant only on the basis on the students' area of study. (ii) There was a significantly positive correlation between participants' perceptions about homosexuality and their attitudes, that is, attitudes could be positively predicted from participants' perceptions. (iii) Perceptions and attitudes varied significantly according to the time when participants first had contact with the term “homosexuality”. In conclusion, adequate knowledge about homosexuality is helpful for Chinese university students in adopting much more tolerant attitudes towards homosexuality.

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Zaharin, Aisya Aymanee M. "Reconsidering Homosexual Unification in Islam: A Revisionist Analysis of Post-Colonialism, Constructivism and Essentialism." Religions 13, no. 8 (2022): 702. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13080702.

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While there are Muslims who hold that the two identities Muslim and homosexual are mutually exclusive and that it is illegal to practise homosexual acts, the ongoing Muslim revisionist movement seems to provide a more understanding approach. Members of this movement argue that although the act of homosexuality is mentioned in the Qur’ān, this term is not inherently similar to the contemporary understanding of homosexuality based on love (mawaddah) and mutual consent. This paper provides a comprehensive understanding of theological, historical and sociological discourses to demonstrate some of the challenges facing contemporary sexual ethics in relation to Muslim homosexuality and its relationship to power (religious, patriarchal and neo-colonialist). It argues that conservative and centrist scholars have always presented homosexuality based on cis-hetero morality standards, but not from a deep understanding of the Qur’ān and the Hadith. It also argues that from a conservative view, homosexuality has never been addressed from either a medical/psychological (essentialism) or a social constructivist perspective, thereby further denying the existence of men who are not attracted to females as explained in the Qur’ān (24:31). On a historical level, this paper offers a discussion of legal, social and political genealogies of the history of same-sex attraction among Muslims by addressing relevant questions related to pre-colonial and post-colonial legacies. This paper then considers sociological and scientific approaches (constructivism and essentialism theories) that explain a place for same-sex unions in Islam.

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Rotich, Shadrack Chebet. "Examining the Homosexual Worldview and its Implications for African Religious Contexts." Editon Consortium Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies 2, no. 1 (2019): 143–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjahss.v2i1.109.

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This study's purpose is to help individual Christians and church, in general, to critically examine the homosexual worldview that is forcefully advancing against the biblical worldview and the potential threats it poses to the sanctity of human life and sexuality. Homosexuality is no longer a secret issue in this generation. It has invaded the social, cultural and religious circus. It is high time for the church to study, expose and confront this evil. Any compromise will cause the church to lose its ethos and headed for peril. Edward T. Welch, in his booklet on Homosexuality; Speaking the truth in love, acknowledges that “homosexuality is the hot issue of the day even more than abortion” (Welch, 2000). This study is of benefit to all religious organisations that subscribe to Christian biblical values.

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Aristova, Alla V. "Christian visions of homosexuality: new debates of old churches." Religious Freedom, no. 21 (December 21, 2018): 144–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/rs.2018.21.1256.

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The article is devoted to the study of the relationship between the processes of erosion of the traditional norm vs deviation matrix in the public consciousness and changes in the position of Christian denominations and churches, new tendencies in theological research, canon law, social work, pastoral practice. The purpose of the work is to characterize the processes of diversification of Christian churches for their attitude towards homosexuality under the pressure of changes in the structure of social deviations and the liberalization of the Christian environment. The author defines the main types of historical stigma of homosexuality; characterizes changes in the public opinion of the population of traditionally Christian countries (based on the modern sociological studies); highlights the main innovations in the social doctrine and practice of various Christian denominations; and identifies the dominant trends in eastern and western Christianity in relation to homosexuality. It is substantiated that the contradiction between the official doctrine, the conservative position of the church hierarchy, on the one hand, and liberal tendencies in the public opinion of the secular community, on the other hand, are more or less common to all Christian denominations. The most difficult situation related the Roman Catholic Church, whose followers live in Western countries with a high level of tolerance for homosexuality. Under the pressure of changes in legal institutions, public morals and public opinion, the traditional Christian interpretation of homosexuality is filled with new connotations; changes were introduced in canon law, institute of spiritual education, other religious institutions; the church becomes more open to discuss problems that have long been taboo. Church policy and pastoral practice are based on the clear delineation of the concepts of "homosexuality", "acts of homosexuality", "homosexual inclinations", "homosexual intentions", "homosexual temptation", etc. It has been shown that despite the existing changes in rhetoric, canon law and church practice, the official position of churches is subject to constant critical attacks. Criticism refers not only to the "lack of" acts of homosexuality, the preservation of religious stigma of homosexuality as sin, the condemnation by the church of homosexual behavior, same-sex marriages and gay culture, but also the rooting of patterns of such behavior in monastic and priestly structures. An alternative to the official position of traditional Christian churches is the growing theological movement, which was called "Queer-Theology", which produces its own version of Christian anthropology. Processes of destroying of traditional structure of deviations in the globalized world, from one side, and processes of post-secularizing - from other, generate contradictory consequences for functioning of religious institutes; the palette of possible attitudes to homosexuality becomes complicated. Overall, the differently directed trends were done distinctly in western and east Christianity. In Catholicism, there are processes of liberalization of Christianity, the search for ways to adapt homosexuals to the religious environment, and in the problem field of Christian anthropology new theological interpretations of gender ethics are proposed. In the flow of Orthodoxy, especially of Russian, the fundamentalization and nationalization of Orthodoxy, the defense of the matrix of traditional values will preserve the religious stigma of homosexuality in the future. Research results can be drawn on in the courses of religious-studies and sociological disciplines; in research of the problems of social and religious deviation. Foreseeable assumptions about the development of the research object are finding the best ways to investigate the newest tendencies in attitude of Christian churches toward the social issues of the day; to provide comparative and cross-cultural analysis of processes of diversification of Christian environment.

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Derks, Marco. "Sexual and Religious Regimes of the Self in Dutch Discourses about Homosexuality: A Queer Theological Analysis and Alternative." International Journal of Public Theology 12, no. 3-4 (2018): 353–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341547.

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Abstract This article discusses two major ways in which sexual and religious identities are conceptualized in Dutch public discourses about homosexuality. In a secular discourse that stresses that LGBTs should be able to ‘be themselves’, certain religious identities are often ignored, subordinated or attacked, while the self that needs to be realized is rendered primarily a sexual self. A conservative Protestant (counter-)discourse on ‘being in Christ’ subordinates (homo)sexual identity to Christian identity—or even rejects it. To move beyond such (Late) Modern oppositional constructions of religion and homosexuality in terms of (religious/sexual) “identity”, this article explores the (queer) Catholic concept of sacramental characters—as an anti-identity—and suggests that it has the potential to unsettle some of the deadlocks in public discourses about homosexuality and sexual diversity.

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Kronen, John D., and Eric H. Reitan. "Homosexuality, Misogyny, and God’s Plan." Faith and Philosophy 16, no. 2 (1999): 213–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/faithphil199916216.

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Beckwith, Francis J. "Homosexuality and American Public Life." Philosophia Christi 1, no. 2 (1999): 146–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/pc19991237.

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Klinken, Adriaan van. "Homosexuality, Politics and Pentecostal Nationalism in Zambia." Studies in World Christianity 20, no. 3 (2014): 259–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2014.0095.

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Building upon debates about the politics of nationalism and sexuality in post-colonial Africa, this article highlights the role of religion in shaping nationalist ideologies that seek to regulate homosexuality. It specifically focuses on Pentecostal Christianity in Zambia, where the constitutional declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation has given rise to a form of ‘Pentecostal nationalism’ in which homosexuality is considered to be a threat to the purity of the nation and is associated with the Devil. The article offers an analysis of recent Zambian public debates about homosexuality, focusing on the ways in which the ‘Christian nation’ argument is deployed, primarily in a discourse of anti-homonationalism, but also by a few recent dissident voices. The latter prevent Zambia, and Christianity, from accruing a monolithic depiction as homophobic. Showing that the Zambian case presents a mobilisation against homosexuality that is profoundly shaped by the local configuration in which Christianity defines national identity – and in which Pentecostal-Christian moral concerns and theo-political imaginations shape public debates and politics – the article nuances arguments that explain African controversies regarding homosexuality in terms of exported American culture wars, proposing an alternative reading of these controversies as emerging from conflicting visions of modernity in Africa.1

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Cole, Sherwood O. "The Biological Basis of Homosexuality: A Christian Assessment." Journal of Psychology and Theology 23, no. 2 (1995): 89–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009164719502300202.

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Concurrent with an interest in the incidence and characterization of homosexuality has been an increased interest in the biological basis of such behavior. The present article reviews evidence in support of a biological basis of homosexuality in three interrelated categories—genetic evidence, the prenatal neurohormonal hypothesis, and neuroanatomical evidence. An attempt is made to not only review studies that are representative of experimental findings in each of these categories, but to critically assess the evidence in terms of experimental protocol. In an attempt to provide a Christian assessment of the biological evidence, three conclusions are drawn: (1) evidence for a biological basis of homosexuality is sufficient to warrant its acceptance; (2) the nature of the biological influence on homosexuality is predisposing not determining, thus providing the potential for change; and (3) acceptance of a biological basis of homosexuality in no manner changes the biblical condemnation or prohibition of such behavior. Finally, the need for the Christian church to reach out and minister to homosexual individuals is briefly discussed.

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McCarthy Matzko, David. "Homosexuality and the Practices of Marriage." Modern Theology 13, no. 3 (1997): 371–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0025.00045.

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Wenham, G. J. "The Old Testament Attitude to Homosexuality." Expository Times 102, no. 12 (1991): 359–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001452469110201203.

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Saeed, Omer Farooq, and Muhammad Zain Abbas. "Homosexuality and its Interventions (Intersectional, liberal, biological, Religious)." Al-Duhaa 3, no. 01 (2022): 12–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.51665/al-duhaa.003.01.0127.

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Homosexuality is not just a matter of personal feelings. It has an impact on human individualism, behaviour, family system and public health. The structure of the human community and its norms has been affected. Early from history, the sexual orientation of developing children had been directed by the parental, cultural and religious nourishment. In this article, we placed out four important interventions on homosexuality. These are intersection, liberalism, biology, and religion. The intersectional analysis put light on the inclination of impetus and expression of the act of which the latter is placed at the stake of critique. The comparison of freedom of expression of human psychosocial behaviours is under talk in liberal analysis. We alert the nation, especially the young people and their parents on the biological and psychological health dangers inherent in adopting a lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual, or transgender identity. The rulings of religions including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam vary from escape path to following the divine commandants that are obvious in restriction of expression of homoeroticism.

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Moon, Dawne. "Beyond the Dichotomy: Six Religious Views of Homosexuality." Journal of Homosexuality 61, no. 9 (2014): 1215–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2014.926762.

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Adamczyk, Amy, Chunrye Kim, and Margaret Schmuhl. "Newspaper Presentations of Homosexuality across Nations: Examining Differences by Religion, Economic Development, and Democracy." Sociological Perspectives 61, no. 3 (2017): 399–425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121417724563.

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A lot of research attention has been devoted to understanding cross-national differences in attitudes about homosexuality. A key finding has been that richer, more democratic, and less religious nations are more supportive. However, aside from establishing these relationships, we know little about how public discourse about homosexuality differs across nations. To better understand how public discussions about sexual minorities are framed, this multimethods’ study examines over 800 newspaper articles from Muslim and Protestant-majority nations. Although there are no differences in the extent to which Muslim and Protestant nations discuss homosexuality in the context of religion, Muslim nations are more likely to frame homosexuality as a moral issue and use government claimsmakers. Very poor countries are also more likely to associate homosexuality with morality. Finally, more democratic nations are more likely to discuss homosexuality in the context of rights and include social movement leaders as claimsmakers.

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Vance, Laura L. "Converging on the Heterosexual Dyad: Changing Mormon and Adventist Sexual Norms and Implications for Gay and Lesbian Adherents." Nova Religio 11, no. 4 (2008): 56–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2008.11.4.56.

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Nineteenth-century sexual ideals in Mormonism and Seventh-day Adventism differed: Adventism proscribed sexual expression, even in marriage, and Latter-day Saints encouraged marriage and sexual expression in addition to that sanctioned by the wider society, especially in polygamy. Nonetheless, each movement justified sexual norms by asserting that sexual expression lessened vital force, or physical well-being. In the face of changing societal sexual and gender norms——especially resulting from the sexual revolution, the modern feminist movement, and the gay rights movement——Adventism's and Mormonism's definitions of appropriate sexual expression converged to promote sex in heterosexual marriage. Concomitantly, homosexuality was explicitly and publicly defined as sinful and antithetical to, even threatening, heterosexual marriage and family. This paper explores the convergence of sexual ideals in Mormonism and Adventism, with attention to explicit proscription of homosexuality, responses to homosexuality and homosexuals in each movement, and implications of these for gay and lesbian adherents.

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Johnson, Andrea S. "All Manner of Evil Spoken Falsely." PNEUMA 41, no. 1 (2019): 31–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700747-04101033.

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Abstract This article uses archival sources and secondary sources to argue that narratives from various pentecostal church presses reflected shifts in the broader understanding of homosexuality when discussing the 1907 arrest of pentecostal founder Charles Fox Parham for “unnatural offenses.” In the early 1900s, gay men were free to pursue other men in separate spaces of towns and were generally left alone as long as they did not attract attention. Although there was growing recognition that homosexuality might be a matter of biology, the more popular literature on the topic through the 1920s proclaimed that homosexuality was a choice, influenced by environmental factors. Pentecostalism was then in its infancy, and two schools of thought became prevalent regarding Parham’s arrest: there were those like his wife, who denied the truth of the matter, and those like his protégé Howard Goss, who believed that the behavior was a temporary failing, not a permanent tendency. During World War II and the Cold War, beliefs about the causes of homosexuality shifted again, and as the gay rights movements flourished and the field of pentecostal history became professionalized, authors tended to examine the details of the incident rather than draw conclusions about the accusations. This examination of pentecostal narratives demonstrates the power that narrators have either to emphasize or to minimize certain details, allowing them to shape the reputations of leaders of the movement.

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Almarai, Akeel, and Alessandra Persichetti. "From Power to Pleasure. Homosexuality in the Arab-Muslim World from Lakhi’a to al-mukhannathun." Religions 14, no. 2 (2023): 186. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14020186.

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We propose a historical-philological analysis of the attitudes in Islam and Arab culture toward practices of masculine homosexuality (from the pre-Islamic period until end of the first century of Hijra) based on a review of scriptural (Qur’an, Sunnah, fiqh) and literary sources. We hypothesize the existence of a historical dialectic between two ideological models: on the one hand, the heterosexual norm intertwined with patriarchal domination and Islam; on the other, the existence of homosexual love and other forms of sexuality and gender. First we have discovered that the earliest myth concerning sodomy dates back to a much earlier era than has been assumed in modern studies of homosexuality. Then we propose the thesis according to which in pre-Islamic times homosexuality was associated to power relations, but that homosexual imagery and practices linked to pleasure already emerged at the time of the Prophet. In the prophetic era, the visibility of male homosexuality—which we have been able to analyze only indirectly, i.e., through the treatment reserved for the mukhannathun—was regulated through a socio-political compromise aimed at mediating between hadith of explicit condemnation and tolerance of sexual attitudes and behaviors considered less subversive. Starting from the following era (after Othman’s admission of the mukhannathun to Medina), homosexual practices would begin to conquer more and more spaces of visibility and freedom.

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El-Sharif, Ahmad. "Addressing the Question of Homophobia in Jordanian Public Discourse." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 6, no. 1 (2016): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.6n.1p.47.

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This article investigates the question of homosexuality, homosexuals, and homophobia in the Jordanian public debate in the aftermath of an LGBTQIA meeting that was held secretly in Amman in May 2015. The main purpose of the article is to demonstrate the constituents and arguments which reproduce the public discourse on anti-homosexuality and anti-homosexuals and homophobia in Jordan. This purpose is reached by analysing 35 journal articles written in Standard Arabic in Jordanian public and open-access media. The analysis involves the qualitative analysis of the argument, processes, and themes used to represent homosexuality and homosexuals by the discourse producers. The analysis reveals that the question of homosexuality and homosexuals in Jordan can be addressed in terms of seven angles: the public anti-homosexuality and anti-homosexuals’ calls, the (Islamic) religious argument, protecting and reinforcing law and order, the argument of (homo)sexually-transmitted diseases, the calls of pro-homosexuality and pro-homosexuals and LGBTQIA’s rights activists, the homosexuals’ own self-representation, and the neutral scientific account and representation.Keywords: Jordan, homosexuality, homosexuals, homophobia, LGBTQIA, discourse analysis

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Röder, Antje, and Niels Spierings. "What Shapes Attitudes Toward Homosexuality among European Muslims? The Role of Religiosity and Destination Hostility." International Migration Review 56, no. 2 (2021): 533–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01979183211041288.

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Muslim migrants and their descendants in Western Europe have consistently been shown to hold more negative attitudes toward homosexuality, the more religious they are. In this article, we go beyond this mono-dimensional view of religiosity and develop a theoretical framework that combines (a) the role of different dimensions of religiosity in anchoring cultural attitudes and (b) the potential impact of destination hostility and discrimination on the retention of cultural attitudes toward homosexuality among Muslim migrants in Western Europe. For the analysis, we use eight rounds of the European Social Survey, enriched with country-level data. Findings indicate that Muslim migrants’ mosque attendance, as a dimension of religiosity, has the negative effect that was expected. Particularly, Muslims who grew up in Western Europe are negative about homosexuality if they attended mosque regularly, whereas among first-generation Muslim migrants, origin-country norms are a strong predictor of attitudes toward homosexuality. In addition, we find that perceived group discrimination drives the maintenance of negative attitudes toward homosexuality, especially among mosque attendees. These results imply that the development of more liberal attitudes among European Muslims is held back by a combination of socialization in conservative religious communities and hostility from host-country populations.

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Jewett, Paul K. "Book Review: The New Testament and Homosexuality." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 39, no. 2 (1985): 208–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002096438503900225.

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Crowley, Paul G. "Homosexuality and the Counsel of the Cross." Theological Studies 65, no. 3 (2004): 500–529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004056390406500302.

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