Dreaming of Snakes and Other Unauthorized Religiosities: Relations and Queerness in the Study of Religion
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- Raffaella Taylor-Seymour
- Reported year
- 2026
- Reported language
- en
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- article
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- 2026-11-14T02:47:26.366558+00:00
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- 2026-11-14T02:47:26.366558+00:00
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ABSTRACT This article offers a framework for drawing into focus the relational dimensions of religious practices, particularly those that lead away from formal, congregational, and authorized styles of worship. Following the religious trajectories of young queer people in Zimbabwe that involve both ancestral spiritual practices and Pentecostalism, the article suggests that relations with the divine, ancestral, and other spiritual beings are a key dimension of, motivating force, and affective structure of many religious orientations and experiences. The article first analyzes structures of relations, collectively held forms that encourage, permit, and discourage certain ways of relating to the unseen and the otherworldly. Alongside this, it traces the idiosyncratic and improvised styles of relating that people develop beyond established paradigms, which lead away from elite, permitted, and authorized forms. It contends that engaging the webs of relations in which religious subjects are enmeshed promises to enhance our understandings of religion in the contemporary world.
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- https://openalex.org/W7211910274
- DOI
- 10.1093/jaarel/lfag044
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- Oxford University Press
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Raffaella Taylor-Seymour. Dreaming of Snakes and Other Unauthorized Religiosities: Relations and Queerness in the Study of Religion. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfag044
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- Raffaella Taylor-Seymour. (2026). Dreaming of Snakes and Other Unauthorized Religiosities: Relations and Queerness in the Study of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfag044
- Chicago
- Raffaella Taylor-Seymour. Dreaming of Snakes and Other Unauthorized Religiosities: Relations and Queerness in the Study of Religion. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfag044
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- Raffaella Taylor-Seymour. Dreaming of Snakes and Other Unauthorized Religiosities: Relations and Queerness in the Study of Religion. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfag044
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