Call for Submissions: Journal of Bisexuality

SPECIAL SPIRITUALTIES ISSUE – Journal of Bisexuality

Special Journal of Bisexuality issue on bisexualities and spiritualities; intersections, inquiries, stories, visions.

What are the connections/correlations between bisexuality as sexual orientation and the spiritual tradition(s) one is born into and/or chooses for oneself?

Are certain spiritual philosophies/practices more/less likely to include bisexuals?

In a pastoral sense, what are the sources of pain and suffering, of comfort and hope, for bisexuals in contrast to non-bisexuals?

Are there distinctive religious practices and beliefs characteristic of bi people?

What importance, if any, do bi-identified people put on bisexually-oriented representations of deity, cosmology?

What are the experiences of bi clergy – rabbis, ministers, imams, shamans, priestesses, priests, nuns, etc. – in terms of training/credentialing, job searches, congregational dynamics, interactions with gay, lesbian, trans, intersex and heterosexual peoples?

What are the ways in which non-binary thinking -- growing out of and/or grounding-rooting bi-epistemologies -- shape religious/spiritual practices?

What are the ways in which they are complexified and how/when do they move beyond the usual modes of thinking re: gender/gender expression?

What are the ways in which they challenge fictions of religious purity (i.e. – how do bi and/or trans epistemologies create space for people of multiple (usually seen as ‘conflicting;) or fluid religious identities?

Lastly, how do these beyond-binary modalities open up spaces/new horizons for conceptualizing creation stories, parables, wisdom texts, ways of naming the divine … for everyone?

Send queries to Dr. Loraine Hutchins, lorainehutchins@starpower.net

Proposals for articles due December 1, 2008.

Full drafts of requested articles due February 1, 2009.