09/07/2025 16:30
- 17:30
HALL: Dean's Hall of the Faculty of Catholic Theology
Proponent:
Warren J.
Chair:
Helman I.
Speaker:
Helman I.,
Warren J.
Digital spaces define so much of our worlds today and both influence and inform opinions. The role of religion within those spaces, specifically religions' queer perspectives, has yet to be thoroughly studied as harbingers of coping with and/or providing impetus for social change, even though digital spaces are filled with queer perspectives from 'grassroots' organizations and movements as well as those from larger more established traditions. Therefore, we invite queer perspectives from various spiritual and religious traditions present online which address what religion means today in the midst of social change and/or as a force for social change. We also encourage queer interpretations of specific religious traditions, rituals, practices, the(a/o)logies, etc. which help us to define religion from a queer perspective. In addition to queer definitions of religion or definitions of queer religion, we are specifically interested in how these queer religious presences online define and create community. We ask that papers consider the insights from feminist, intersectional, and/or decolonial methodologies as significant to queering religion in society and in digital spaces.
The central questions, this panel explores, are: How do we, from queer perspectives, define religions and/or the concept of religious community in online spaces, how do queer digital religious spaces help transform societies for the better (European and beyond), and what is it about religions online that is queer and/or conducive to queer religious practices?
We especially invite new and upcoming scholars as well as scholars from diverse religious and spiritual perspectives.