Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and Beyond

367 Pages·2020·4.061 MB·English

by  Marco Derks, Mariecke van den Berg

Public Discourses
About Homosexuality
and Religion in Europe
and Beyond
Edited by
Marco Derks · Mariecke van den Berg
Public Discourses About Homosexuality
and Religion in Europe and Beyond
·
Marco Derks Mariecke van den Berg
Editors
Public Discourses
About Homosexuality
and Religion
in Europe and Beyond
Editors
Marco Derks Mariecke van den Berg
The Hague, The Netherlands Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Acknowledgments
This volume is a result of the research project “Contested Privates: The
Oppositional Pairing of Religion and Homosexuality in Contemporary
PublicDiscourseintheNetherlands”(2013–2018),whichwasfundedby
theNetherlandsOrganisationforScientificResearch(NWO)underGrant
327-25-004. This project was a collaboration between the Amsterdam
CenterfortheStudyofLivedReligionandtheUtrechtChairofReligion
and Gender, with Ruard Ganzevoort and Anne-Marie Korte as project
leaders. We would like to thank both for their enthusiasm in initiating
and developing this project, which encouraged us as co-investigators to
explore different perspectives, theories, cases, and approaches. We have
enjoyed the informal and dedicated way in which they have managed
this project, which created a congenial atmosphere for fruitful, in-depth
exchange, with two sessions of “Nerd Camp” in Hirschfeld, Germany,
as absolute highlights. Other co-investigators in this project were David
BosaspostdoctoralresearcherandSrdjanSremacasaffiliatedpostdoctoral
researcher.Wewouldliketothankthem,too,forbeingpartofthisintel-
lectual journey. Although contracts have ended and project reports have
been written, research projects never really end thanks to the many spin-
offsandnewquestionstheygenerate.OnOctober26–28,2017,weorga-
nizedtheconference“ContestedPrivates:ReligionandHomosexualityin
Public Discourse” in Utrecht; modified versions of five papers presented
at that conference have been included in this volume (Chapters 3, 5–7,
and 12).
v
vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ThechapterbyAddeBruijneisafullyrevisedversionofanearlieressay
in the Dutch journal Religie & Samenleving (2016); the chapter by Paul
Mepschen is a slightly revised version of an earlier chapter in National
PoliticsandSexualityinTransregionalPerspective:TheHomophobicArgu-
ment,editedbyAchimRohde,ChristinavonBraun,andStefanieSchüler-
Springorum (Routledge, 2018); and the chapter by Magda Dolin´ska-
RydzekandMarieckevandenBergisaslightlyrevisedversionofachapter
inReligiousandSexualNationalisminCentralandEasternEurope:Gods,
Gays and Governments, edited by Srdjan Sremac and Ruard Ganzevoort
(Brill,2015).Wewouldliketothanktheeditorsorpublishersforgranting
permission to reissue these publications.
ThispublicationwasmadepossiblebyfinancialsupportoftheNether-
lands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Van Coeverden
AdrianiStichting,andtheResearchInstituteofPhilosophyandReligious
Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
We would like to thank Phil Getz and Amy Invernizzi at Palgrave
Macmillan for their dedicated and professional assistance and Edward
Jacobson (Vuurtoren Editing) for his excellent work proofreading the
entire manuscript.
Contents
1 Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion
in Europe and Beyond: An Introduction 1
Marco Derks and Mariecke van den Berg
2 Hellish Evil, Heavenly Love: A Long-Term History
of Same-Sex Sexuality and Religion in the Netherlands 21
David J. Bos
3 Sexuality, Religion, and Education: (Re)Production
ofCulturalistDiscourseinSexualDiversityEducation
in the Netherlands 59
Koen Rutten and Dana Theewis
4 A Postprogressive Nation: Homophobia, Islam,
and the New Social Question in the Netherlands 81
Paul Mepschen
5 CultureWarsAboutSexuality:ATheologicalProposal
for Dialogue 105
Ad de Bruijne
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6 Queering Judaism and Masculinist Inventions:
German Homonationalism Around 1900 125
Ulrike Brunotte
7 Antisemitism and Homophobia in Polish Liberal
Discourses: The Cultural Logic of Comparison
and a Proposal for Intersectionality 147
Roberto Kulpa
8 The Changing Relation Between Sexual and Gender
Minorities and Religion in Finland: Some
Observations in the Light of Postsecularity 171
Peter Nynäs, Eetu Kejonen, and Pieter Vullers
9 Debating Homosexuality in Italy: Plural Religious
Voices in the Public Sphere 197
Alberta Giorgi
10 The Ultraconservative Agenda Against Sexual Rights
in Spain: A Catholic Repertoire of Contention
to Reframe Public Concerns 219
Monica Cornejo-Valle and J. Ignacio Pichardo
11 The Catholic Opposition to Gender and Sexual
Equality in France: Reviving the Traditional
Condemnation of Homosexuality During the Debates
on Marriage for All? 241
Céline Béraud
12 Ecce Homo in Sweden and Serbia: State, Church,
and Blasphemy 261
Danica Igrutinovic´ and Mariecke van den Berg
13 “Gays as a Weapon of the Antichrist”: Religious
Nationalism, Homosexuality, and the Antichrist
on the Russian Internet 285
Magda Dolin´ska-Rydzek and Mariecke van den Berg
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14 The Empire Speaks Back: Zambian Responses
to European Union LGBTI Rights Diplomacy 309
Adriaan van Klinken and Emmanuel Phiri
15 Conservative Islamic Forces, Global LGBT Rights,
and Anticipatory Homophobia in Indonesia 325
Hendri Yulius Wijaya
Index 349
Notes on Contributors
Céline Béraud isaprofessorattheÉcoledesHautesÉtudesenSciences
Sociales, Paris, France. A sociologist of religion and gender, she has
written several journal articles, chapters, and books on these topics,
such as “ ‘Mariage pour tous’: The Same-Sex Marriage Controversy in
France,” in The Intimate: Polity and the Catholic Church, edited by Karel
Dobbelaere and Alfonso Pérez-Agote (Leuven University Press, 2015);
and Métamorphoses catholiques: Acteurs, enjeux et mobilisations depuis le
mariage pour tous (Éditions de la MSH 2015; with Philippe Portier).
David J. Bos is a lecturer in sociology at the Faculty of Social and
Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He
obtained an M.A. in Theology at Groningen University and a Ph.D. in
Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. His publications include an
anthology of interviews with and essays by Michel Foucault (Woelrat,
1985) and Servants of the Kingdom: Professionalization Among Ministers
oftheNineteenth-CenturyNetherlandsReformedChurch (Brill,2010).As
a postdoc, he conducted research on the social acceptance of homosexu-
ality (at The Netherlands Institute for Social Research) and on the oppo-
sitional pairing of religion and homosexuality in Dutch public discourse
(attheVrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam).Hisotherresearchinterestsinclude
the social history of “bad prayer” in the modern era.
Ulrike Brunotte is an associate professor at the Faculty of Arts and
SocialSciences,MaastrichtUniversity,TheNetherlands,adjunctprofessor
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