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Queering religious texts: An exploration of British non-heterosexual Christians’ and Muslims’ strategy of constructing sexuality-affirming hermeneutics. (2005)
Journal Article
Yip, A. (2005). Queering religious texts: An exploration of British non-heterosexual Christians’ and Muslims’ strategy of constructing sexuality-affirming hermeneutics. Sociology, 39(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038505049000

Religious authority figures often use religious texts as the primary basis for censuring homosexuality. In recent years, however, non-heterosexual Christians and Muslims have begun to contest the discursively produced boundary of sexual morality.Draw... Read More about Queering religious texts: An exploration of British non-heterosexual Christians’ and Muslims’ strategy of constructing sexuality-affirming hermeneutics..

The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations (2005)
Journal Article
Fitzpatrick, T. (2005). The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations

Since the 1980s there have been three main attempts to ground citizenship upon the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these are reviewed below. The principal task of this article, th... Read More about The Fourth Attempt to Construct a Politics of Welfare Obligations.

European Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society (2005)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2005). European Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society. Innovation / Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 18(1),

The discussion of European cosmopolitanism and civil society has failed to take questions of culture seriously enough. While remaining sympathetic to liberal forms of cosmopolitanism, this article considers the view that such proposals fail to make s... Read More about European Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society.