shinto

finally…letting myself freak out about how much i like shinto.

queenie! …..academia rummage sale?

(to borrow that turn of phrase from solipsistful.)

i have been Hunting books and went back through every queenie comment on this dang wordpress and the library has a whopping one of them. and it’s not requestable or a reference book somehow. D:

time for cor’s religious background

because oops, things not being super clear.

Nancy Leong’s “Negative Identity”

I saw a request for a summary of Leong’s paper, so as I’m reading I will be highlighting pieces I find of note (and discussing where I disagree or recommend further discussion).  Long, but very skimmable I hope.

Unity/Universalizing

Sociologists have identified a common belief in a “religious convergence” during the twentieth century, which posits America as a nation of diverse religious views that nonetheless yield consensus on basic values — what researchers have termed the “common creed.”  Under this theory, people express hostility toward atheists because they disrupt this emerging narrative. (Leong, “Negative Identity,” 1379; bolding mine)

I really love this quote.  I want to eat it and digest it over and over.

faith/submission

i’m reading a fairly good book right now: The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Believers, Seekers, and Those in Between by Kaya Oakes.

(obligatory ehhhhh-ing about spectra and a constant “seeking”/questioning, and where do you plot atheists and quoi folks who reject this model)

inertia

i am so sick of sliding and watching inertia make decisions for me

On “Physically Non/Human”

Or:  How “P-Shifting,” “Biological Otherkin,” “Genetic Otherkin,” and “Physically Nonhuman” All Mean Different Things

[Adapted from my original Masterpost here, which discusses glitchkin/conceptkin and causation/origin in more depth.  Cross-posted to tumblr here.]

femme and gender expression/presentation

aka “goddamn we need more words btw”

Cor’s Big Nonhuman/Otherkin Post

Hokay.  Honestly, from the state of my tumblr, we knew this was coming.  Herein, I attempt to consolidate and elaborate.  This post is a mix of personal and political, as ever.

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