{"product_id":"a-house-of-prayer-for-david-k-seitz-9781517902131","title":"A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based emphasis on shared vulnerability leads it to engage in radical solidarity with asylum-seekers, pointing to the work of affect in radical, coalition politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA House of Prayer for All People \u003c\/i\u003emaps the affective dimensions of the politics of citizenship at this church. For nearly three years, David K. Seitz regularly attended services at MCCT. He paid special attention to how community and citizenship are formed in a primarily queer Christian organization, focusing on four contemporary struggles: debates on race and gender in religious leadership, activism around police-minority relations, outreach to LGBT Christians transnationally, and advocacy for asylum seekers. Engaging in debates in cultural geography, queer of color critique, psychoanalysis, and affect theory, \u003ci\u003eA House of Prayer for All People\u003c\/i\u003e stages innovative, reparative encounters with citizenship and religion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on queer theory's rich history of \"subjectless\" critique, Seitz calls for an \"improper\" queer citizenship--one that refuses liberal identity politics or national territory as the ethical horizon for sympathy, solidarity, rights, redistribution, or intimacy. Improper queer citizenship, he suggests, depends not only on \"good politics\" but also on people's capacity for empathy, integration, and repair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David K. Seitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517902134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517902131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.50d","brand":"David K. Seitz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088506368255,"sku":"9781517902131","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cc1d43c3-e0af-48b0-a593-27fe4bc42ef9.jpg?v=1769105143","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-house-of-prayer-for-david-k-seitz-9781517902131","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}