Sinning in Sin(gapore) city : queer and Christian identities, juxtaposed

This paper aims to examine the processual exertions that Queer Christian women in Singapore undertook in negotiating their (ostensibly) conflicting sexual and religious identities. Information was gathered from 15 individuals through informal semi-structured qualitative interviews, where they sha...

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Main Authors: Ching, Isaac Xiang Guo, Kwek, Jian Min, Khoo, Gabriel Wei Jie
Other Authors: Han Sam
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73671
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Kwek, Jian Min
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description This paper aims to examine the processual exertions that Queer Christian women in Singapore undertook in negotiating their (ostensibly) conflicting sexual and religious identities. Information was gathered from 15 individuals through informal semi-structured qualitative interviews, where they shared in-depth details regarding their everyday lives. Upon analysis, it was found that all of our interviewees, at some point in their lives, encountered internal struggles due to the “intolerability” of Queerness within Christianity, thus causing disruption to their sense of social stability. Rather than staying in this conflicted state, they sought resolution through an instauration of their bodies to remain authentic. As such, this paper also discussed the various agencies of authenticity that interviewees adopted to reconcile their (arguably) dual identities. However, despite their creative attempts at conciliation, these Queer Christian women, perhaps, unknowingly perpetuate a certain homonormativity, emplacing them within the boundaries of a heteronormative-inspired doxa.
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spelling ntu-10356/736712019-12-10T11:52:36Z Sinning in Sin(gapore) city : queer and Christian identities, juxtaposed Ching, Isaac Xiang Guo Kwek, Jian Min Khoo, Gabriel Wei Jie Han Sam School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences This paper aims to examine the processual exertions that Queer Christian women in Singapore undertook in negotiating their (ostensibly) conflicting sexual and religious identities. Information was gathered from 15 individuals through informal semi-structured qualitative interviews, where they shared in-depth details regarding their everyday lives. Upon analysis, it was found that all of our interviewees, at some point in their lives, encountered internal struggles due to the “intolerability” of Queerness within Christianity, thus causing disruption to their sense of social stability. Rather than staying in this conflicted state, they sought resolution through an instauration of their bodies to remain authentic. As such, this paper also discussed the various agencies of authenticity that interviewees adopted to reconcile their (arguably) dual identities. However, despite their creative attempts at conciliation, these Queer Christian women, perhaps, unknowingly perpetuate a certain homonormativity, emplacing them within the boundaries of a heteronormative-inspired doxa. Bachelor of Arts 2018-04-03T04:27:35Z 2018-04-03T04:27:35Z 2018 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73671 en Nanyang Technological University 32 p. application/pdf
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Sinning in Sin(gapore) city : queer and Christian identities, juxtaposed
title Sinning in Sin(gapore) city : queer and Christian identities, juxtaposed
title_full Sinning in Sin(gapore) city : queer and Christian identities, juxtaposed
title_fullStr Sinning in Sin(gapore) city : queer and Christian identities, juxtaposed
title_full_unstemmed Sinning in Sin(gapore) city : queer and Christian identities, juxtaposed
title_short Sinning in Sin(gapore) city : queer and Christian identities, juxtaposed
title_sort sinning in sin gapore city queer and christian identities juxtaposed
topic DRNTU::Social sciences
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