Navigating Religion, Sexuality and Illness:  Ellie’s Story

Sarah-Jane Page; Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip

doi:10.1163/9789004390713_013

Navigating Religion, Sexuality and Illness: Ellie’s Story

Sarah-Jane Page, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This chapter uses one woman’s life story to examine the intersection of religion, sexuality, and illness. This woman, Ellie, was a university student who identified as a ‘Quaker-Buddhist-Pagan’ bisexual and practised polyamory, and she also suffered from chronic illness. While she encountered particular disadvantages, Ellie was also able to utilise significant resources in relation to her class location and ethnicity, as a middle-class white woman, to engender successful outcomes as she navigated various youth transitions. The intersectional analysis of her story has generated an account of how privileges and disadvantages interrelate, demonstrating the structural constraints and agentic potentials garnered.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intersecting Religion and Sexuality
Subtitle of host publication	Sociological Perspectives
Editors	Sarah-Jane Page, Andrew K.T. Yip
Place of Publication	Leiden
Publisher	Brill
Chapter	12
Pages	228-248
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-04-39071-3
ISBN (Print)	978-90-04-37247-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004390713_013
Publication status	Published - 22 Oct 2020

Publication series

Name	Religion and the Social Order
Publisher	Brill

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Funding Information:
The main study, conducted between 2009 and 2011, was jointly funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the Religion and Society Programme (Award no. ah/G014051/1).

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Intersecting Religion and Sexuality: Sociological Perspectives. ed. / Sarah-Jane Page; Andrew K.T. Yip. Leiden: Brill, 2020. p. 228-248 (Religion and the Social Order).

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