Queer Spiritualities

3 credits

We are spiritual beings and sexual beings. Some of us are LGBTQIA+. This seminar explores intersections and collisions between sexualities and spiritualities of LGBTQIA+ persons.Open to undergraduates and graduates seeking to understand LGBQTIA+ spirituality in their lives or in relationships and pastoral work with LGBTQIA+ people. How do religious traditions create conflicts between LGBQTIA+ sexuality and spirituality? Happily, manyreligious figures overcome those conflicts showing that LGBQTIA+ persons bring special gifts to spiritual life, while some traditional spirituality also serves the LGBQTIA+ community. First-person accounts and guest speakers ground our spiritual, historical, and ethical readings in progressive and traditional Catholic, Episcopal, Protestant, and Orthodox thinkers and LGBQTIA+ leaders.