Roman Catholicism and Confucianism on Homosexuality in Hong Kong Before and After 1997: A Postcolonial, Queer, Feminist Perspective and Implications for Chinese Roman Catholic Ethics
Contemporary official sexual teaching of the Roman Catholic Church has not addressed the issue of colonialism regarding homosexuality. Heterosexism calcified by a more complex «mutual malformation» of Roman Catholicism and Confucianism has led to invisibility and silence of queer Catholics within th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Pluto Journals
2016-01-01
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| Series: | Horizontes Decoloniales |
| Online Access: | https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/decohori.2.0025 |
| Summary: | Contemporary official sexual teaching of the Roman Catholic Church has not addressed the issue of colonialism regarding homosexuality. Heterosexism calcified by a more complex «mutual malformation» of Roman Catholicism and Confucianism has led to invisibility and silence of queer Catholics within the Hong Kong Roman Catholic Church. This article reviews the historical understanding of sexuality in Chinese society, the colonial impact on the issue of homosexuality and the recent public discourse on homosexuality in Hong Kong to illuminate the context and the kind of resistance of individual queer Catholics in Hong Kong has been striving from postcolonial, feminist and queer perspectives. Keywords : Sexuality, Roman Catholic Church, Confucianism, Hong Kong; Queer theory, Postcolonialism. |
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| ISSN: | 2545-8728 2422-6343 |