Melissa Wilcox

Melissa Wilcox is an Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Gender Studies Program at Whitman College. She is the author of Queer Women and Religious Individualism (University of Indiana Press, 2009) and Coming Out in Christianity (University of Indiana Press, 2003), as well as co-editor (with David W. Machacek) of Sexuality and the World's Religious (ABC-CLIO, 2003).

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Friday, August 6th, 2010

Parodic politics

Perhaps the upswing in religious individualism in this postmodern, postsecular period doesn’t herald the breakdown of community after all—nor does the rise of a postmodern culture mean the death of parodic political activism. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, though a small organization, may be indicative of larger patterns that we as sociologists have yet to thoroughly study: the roles of postsecular religiosities in community and activism, and the force of parody in postmodern politics.

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