Queer Women and Religious Individualism

<p>Melissa M. Wilcox explores the complex spiritual lives of queer women in the Los Angeles area. She takes the reader on a tour of a colorful array of religious and secular groups that serve as spiritual resources for these women--from the well-known Metropolitan Community Churches to Wiccan covens from the Gay and Lesbian Sierrans to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Arguing that these women's stories are exemplary cases of postmodern patterns of religious identity belief and practice Wilcox offers a nuanced analysis of contemporary Western spirituality and selfhood and a detailed exploration of the history of queer religious organizing in Los Angeles. <i>Queer Women and Religious Individualism</i> is important reading for scholars in religious studies sociology women's studies and LGBT studies.</p>