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“Killing the Messenger”: Religious Black Gay Men's Neutralization of Anti-Gay Religious Messages.

I use cognitive dissonance theory as a framework to examine coping strategies used by men endeavoring to maintain a coherent sense of themselves as gay Christians. Using interviews with black gay Christian men, I uncover a strategy used to maintain that identity in the face of stigmatizing religious...

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Published in:Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 56 - 73
Main Author: Pitt, Richard N.
Format: Article
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Mar2010
Subjects:
Cognitive dissonance
Christian gay men
Social stigma
Gender identity
Identity (Psychology)
United States
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