Navigating Sexual and Religious Identity Conflict: A Mormon Perspective

Dehlin, John P.; Galliher, Renee Vickerman; Bradshaw, William S.; Crowell, Katherine A.

doi:10.1080/15283488.2014.989440

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“…These decontextualized, content-free analyses fall short of our responsibility to understand identity development in full, and in ways that lay foundations for translational or interventional work. For example, as younger people learn about the expectations of others, and become attuned to them across adolescence, the location of conflict may lie between personally salient domains and cultural expectations (e.g., Dehlin et al , 2015), perhaps a location of conflict that shifts as Identity Content in Context 23 identity becomes more integrated and individualized in adulthood. Beyond understanding more about identity development, understanding the location of these conflicts should play a major role in interventions to alleviate psychological distress.…”

Section: Conflict Compartmentalization Coherence Reduxmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The existing literature is rich with examples of identity explorations within specific domains or aspects of identity content, but rarely are multiple contents examined or the interactions between them (see Dehlin, Galliher, Bradshaw, & Crowell, 2015;Syed, Azmitia, & Cooper, 2011 for exceptions). The extant literature also includes quite varied definitions of identity content, ranging from broad cultural-ideological belief systems or values to small-scale behavioral manifestations of identity.…”

Section: Introducing a Multilevel Model Of Identity Content In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An integrated developmental model for studying identity content in context.

Galliher

McLean

Syed

2017

Developmental Psychology

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Historically, identity researchers have placed greater emphasis on processes of identity development (how people develop their identities) and less on the content of identity (what the identity is). The relative neglect of identity content may reflect the lack of a comprehensive framework to guide research. In this article, we provide such a comprehensive framework for the study of the content of identity, including four levels of analysis. At the broadest level, we situate individual identity within historical, cultural, and political contexts, elaborating on identity development within the context of shifting cultural norms, values, and attitudes.Histories of prejudice and discrimination are relevant in shaping intersections among historically marginalized identities. Second, we examine social roles as unique and central contexts for identity development, such that relationship labels become integrated into a larger identity constellation. Third, domains of individual or personal identity content intersect to yield a sense of self in which various aspects are subjectively experienced as an integrated whole. We explore the negotiation of culturally marginalized and dominant identity labels, as well as idiosyncratic aspects of identities based on unique characteristics or group memberships. Finally, we argue that the content of identity is enacted at the level of everyday interactions, the "micro-level" of identity. The concepts of identity conflict, coherence, and compartmentalization are presented as strategies used to navigate identity content across these four levels. This framework serves as an organizing tool for the current literature, as well as for designing future studies on the identity development.

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Section: Conflict Compartmentalization Coherence Reduxmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introducing a Multilevel Model Of Identity Content In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

An integrated developmental model for studying identity content in context.

Galliher

McLean

Syed

2017

Developmental Psychology

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147

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“…Identity strain emerges at the intersections of marginalized and mainstream identity domains, and between other aspects of identity. A number of authors have discussed the process of developing a positive, coherent same-sex attracted identity, within the context of a deeply held, nonaffirming religious identity (e.g., Dahl & Galliher, 2012;Dehlin et al , 2015). Others have written about the challenges of women in male-dominated career contexts (e.g., engineering, Hatmaker, Identity Content in Context 13 2013).…”

Section: Level 1: Cultural and Historical Contexts Of Identity Develomentioning

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An Integrated Developmental Model for Studying Identity Content in Context

Galliher¹,

McLean²,

Syed³

2017

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Historically, identity researchers have placed greater emphasis on processes of identity development (how people develop their identities) and less on the content of identity (what the identity is). The relative neglect of identity content may reflect the lack of a comprehensive framework to guide research. In this article, we provide such a comprehensive framework for the study of the content of identity, including four levels of analysis. At the broadest level, we situate individual identity within historical, cultural, and political contexts, elaborating on identity development within the context of shifting cultural norms, values, and attitudes. Histories of prejudice and discrimination are relevant in shaping intersections among historically marginalized identities. Second, we examine social roles as unique and central contexts for identity development, such that relationship labels become integrated into a larger identity constellation. Third, domains of individual or personal identity content intersect to yield a sense of self in which various aspects are subjectively experienced as an integrated whole. We explore the negotiation of culturally marginalized and dominant identity labels, as well as idiosyncratic aspects of identities based on unique characteristics or group memberships. Finally, we argue that the content of identity is enacted at the level of everyday interactions, the “micro-level” of identity. The concepts of identity conflict, coherence, and compartmentalization are presented as strategies used to navigate identity content across these four levels. This framework serves as an organizing tool for the current literature, as well as for designing future studies on the identity development.

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“…The lived experience of Muslim men who are sexually attracted to other men is heavily thwarted, in both the Western (Van den Akker, Van der Ploeg and Scheepers ) and Muslim (Gelbal and Duyan ) cultures. While some Christian gay males of faith conceal their homosexual identities (Dehlin, Galliher, Bradshaw and Crowell ) in the West, there are many gay affirming Christian and Jewish churches, too.…”

Section: Gay Identity Politics and Social Movements In Islamic Culturesmentioning

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Muslim gay men: identity conflict and politics in a Muslim majority nation

Hamdi

Lachheb

Anderson

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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While a number of investigations have examined how gay Muslim men view homosexuality in relation to religious Western homophobia, this research constitutes the first account of the experiences of self-identified gay men living in an African, Muslim nation, where same-sex sex is both illegal and actively persecuted. We interviewed 28 gay men living in Tunisia in order to understand how they assimilate their sexual, religious and ethnic identities within a highly homophobic culture. Utilizing notions of homoerasure and homohysteria (McCormack and Eric Anderson ,b), and examining the intersection of identity conflict and new social movement theory, we highlight four strategies that participants use to negotiate the dissonance of living with conflicting identities in a context of religious homophobia: (1) privileging their Islamic identities and rejecting homosexuality as a legitimate sexual identity; (2) rejecting Islam and accepting homosexuality as a legitimate sexual identity; (3) interpreting Islam to be supportive of homosexuality; and (4) creating a non-penetrative homosexuality to be compatible with literal Qur'anic interpretations. We discuss the multiple difficulties these men face in relation to religious intolerance and ethnic heteronormativity, and reflect upon the possibilities and obstacles of using Western identity politics towards the promotion of social justice within a framework of growing homohysteria.

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Navigating Sexual and Religious Identity Conflict: A Mormon Perspective

Cited by 66 publications

References 28 publications

An integrated developmental model for studying identity content in context.

An integrated developmental model for studying identity content in context.

An Integrated Developmental Model for Studying Identity Content in Context

Muslim gay men: identity conflict and politics in a Muslim majority nation

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