Re-Authoring to Reconcile Religious Beliefs with Sexual Orientation: A Narrative Study
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Publication Title
Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling
DOI
10.1080/15538605.2019.1597817
Abstract
Narrative qualitative research design was used to understand the processes of three lesbians with Oneness Pentecostal backgrounds who reconciled their religious beliefs with their affectional orientation. The central question for this study was “How do lesbians with Oneness Pentecostal backgrounds describe their coming out processes, and how did they reconcile their religious beliefs and sexual orientations?” Participants’ stories revealed that reconciliation processes are unique and complicated. The narrative therapy reauthoring technique was combined with a feminist theoretical framework and used to analyze participants’ stories. Three unifying themes of reconciliation were the process of redefining (a) religious beliefs, (b) family, and (c) self.
Recommended Citation
Parker, Karen D., Kristen Dickens, Barbara Herlihy.
2019.
"Re-Authoring to Reconcile Religious Beliefs with Sexual Orientation: A Narrative Study."
Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling, 13 (2): 94-113: Taylor & Francis Online.
doi: 10.1080/15538605.2019.1597817 source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15538605.2019.1597817
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/leadership-facpubs/158
