Nuptial symbolics beyond the law: constructions of religion and sexuality in debates on the legalization of same-sex marriage

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Acknowledgements

The articles in this issue are based on papers and responses presented in a pre-arranged session sponsored by the Gay Men and Religion Group and the Law, Religion, and Culture Group at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion on 24 November 2014, in San Diego, CA, USA. This special issue is part of the research project “Contested Privates: The Oppositional Pairing of Religion and Homosexuality in Contemporary Public Discourse in the Netherlands” (Amsterdam Center for the Study of Lived Religion & Utrecht Chair of Religion and Gender).

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Notes on contributors

Marco Derks is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University. He is a theologian and scholar of religion, sexuality and gender. He has published articles in, for example, Biblical Interpretation and Theology & Sexuality, and he is co-chair of the Gay Men and Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion. Academia: https://uu.academia.edu/MarcoDerks. LinkedIn: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marcoderks. Website: http://marcoderks.wordpress.com.

Ruard Ganzevoort is Professor of Practical Theology and Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is also the President of the International Society of Empirical Research in Theology and member of the Dutch Senate for the green party GroenLinks. He has published in the areas of religion and sexuality, religion and trauma, and religion and popular culture. He is the co-editor (with Srđan Sremac) of Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe: Gods, Gays, and Governments (Brill 2016) and founding editor of the Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges. Website: http://www.ruardganzevoort.nl.

Anne-Marie Korte is Professor of Religion and Gender at Utrecht University. She is the founding editor of the open access journal Religion & Gender and President of the International Association for the Study of Religion and Gender. She has published in the area of religion, sexuality and gender, focussing on issues such as accusations of blasphemy (Madonna, Pussy Riot), sacrifice, and miracle stories. She is the co-editor (with Bob Becking and Lucien van Liere) of Contesting Religious Identities: Transformations, Disseminations and Mediations (Brill 2017). Website: http://annemariekorte.org.

ORCID

Marco Derks http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3627-2564

Notes

1. Van den Berg et al., “Contested Social Orders,” 116; cf. Vattimo, Belief; Woodhead, “Sex and Secularization”; Bracke, “Conjugating the Modern/Religious”; Habermas, “Notes on Post-Secular Society.”

2. Van den Berg et al., “Contested Social Orders,” 116; cf. Braidotti, “In Spite of the Times”; Göle, “Powers of the Secular.”

3. Van den Berg et al., “Contested Social Orders,” 116; cf. Harding, The Book of Jerry Falwell; MacCulloch, Reformation; Bates, A Church at War; Jakobsen and Pellegrini, Love the Sin; Cobb, God Hates Fags; Bos, “Acceptatie van homoseksualiteit”; Samson, Jansen, and Notermans, “Gender Agenda.”

4. Sremac and Ganzevoort, Religious and Sexual Nationalisms; cf. van den Berg et al. “Contested Social Orders,” 121–5.

5. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages; Puar, “Citation and Censorship.”

6. Butler, “Sexual Politics”; Mepschen, Duyvendak, and Tonkens, “Sexual Politics”; Dudink, “Homosexuality.”

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Funding

This work was supported by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek [grant number 327-25-004].