Palestinian Queers and the Debate on Sexual Identity and Religious Normativity

Edres, Nijmi (2020). Palestinian Queers and the Debate on Sexual Identity and Religious Normativity. In: Kreil, Aymon; Sorbera, Lucia; Tolino, Serena (eds.) Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures. Beyond Norms and Transgression from the Abbasids to the Present Day (pp. 223-239). I.B. Tauris

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This chapter aims to describe how Palestinian queers configure their relation to religion differently than Jewish queers. In order to reach this aim, the chapter first contextualizes Palestinian debates into the Israeli framework, by underlining the role of religious courts and Islamic associations to shape the debate on gender issues among Palestinians, transforming it into an issue of resistance against ‘Israelization’. Then, the chapter discusses the history of Israeli and Palestinian LGBTQ organizations, showing the different approaches they have to religion. The avoidance of debating religious norms among Palestinian organizations is partly the result of the primacy they give to the national struggle over other debates. Yet it can also be explained by the fact that most of their members lack the religious education that would allow them to critically address such issues. Finally, relating the encounter to Palestinian queers, it shows examples of the ways they address religious debates while maintaining their affective bounds to Palestine by focusing on their private relation with God.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften
UniBE Contributor:	Edres, Nijmi
Subjects:	200 Religion > 290 Other religions 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 900 History > 950 History of Asia
ISBN:	9780755637133
Publisher:	I.B. Tauris
Language:	English
Submitter:	Nijmi Edres
Date Deposited:	16 Mar 2023 12:38
Last Modified:	16 Mar 2023 23:27
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/180073