All the Pain Along with All the Joy: Spiritual Resilience in Lesbian and Gay Christians

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• 作者：Kirk A. Foster (1)
  Sharon E. Bowland (2)
  Anne Nancy Vosler (3)
  
  1. College of Social Work ; University of South Carolina ; Columbia ; SC ; 29208 ; USA
  2. School of Social Work ; Eastern Washington University ; Cheney ; WA ; USA
  3. George Warren Brown School of Social Work ; Washington University in St. Louis ; St. Louis ; MO ; USA
  
• 关键词：Spiritual resilience ; Christianity ; Lesbian ; Gay ; Identity integration ; Affirming congregations
• 刊名：American Journal of Community Psychology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：March 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：55
• 期：1-2
• 页码：191-201
• 全文大小：241 KB
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Community and Environmental Psychology
  Personality and Social Psychology
  Clinical Psychology
  Health Psychology
  Public Health
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2770

文摘

Resilience among lesbian and gay (LG) Christians has received limited attention. We present results from a qualitative study of 27 LG Christians, for whom religion had high salience. The study explored the process of integrating sexual orientation with spirituality. Moving from recognition of incongruence between faith and sexual orientation to integration was found to be a resilience-building process. Through descriptive and process approaches, we identified three primary pathways individuals used to integrate their faith and sexual orientation: transforming theological meaning; finding a safe-enough congregation; and finding an affirming congregation. Some worked for social justice within congregations as part of the resilience-building process. We discuss important decision points for LG Christians that included critical evaluation of extant and potential support systems, redefining scripture and tradition, and transforming communities. A model for LG Christian Spiritual Resilience is presented.