“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...
| Publicado en: | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 56 - 73 |
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