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Mediating ‘Aspirant’ Religious-Sexual Futures: In God's Hands?

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This paper explores the construction of vocational and familial futures, in times of ‘aspiring’, ‘post-welfare,’ or ‘crisis’ youth transitions, as mediated by sexual-religious identification. By considering the intersectional relations of both sexuality and religion in constructing young people's aspirations, the paper highlights pragmatic and caring orientations, including a ‘calling’ to religion as a site of present-future vocational and familial investment. I challenge the separation of religion and sexuality in youth transitions, and in notions of the ‘times we're in’ as compelling certain kinds of future-orientated aspirant (and secular) selves. Overall, the article hopes to contribute to theorising the intersection sexuality and religion in further understanding the subversive – and conservative – potential of religious-sexual values and futures. Such orientations interface with aspects of ‘getting by’ and ‘getting on’ and at once re-inscribe and stretch normative vocational and familial choices.

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  • Yvette Taylor, 2017. "Mediating ‘Aspirant’ Religious-Sexual Futures: In God's Hands?," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 22(1), pages 174-186, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:22:y:2017:i:1:p:174-186
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.4153
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    1. Lisa Adkins, 2009. "Sociological Futures: From Clock Time to Event Time," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 14(4), pages 88-92, September.
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