Negotiating Dissonance between the Religious, the Civil and the Legal in Anglican Same-Sex Weddings

With the adoption of same-sex marriage or marriage-like schemes by civil authorities on both sides of the North Atlantic, Anglican same-sex couples in England, Scotland and the United States have had to negotiate various forms of dissonance between the religious celebration and the legal or civil st...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Studies in Church History
Main Author: Bethmont, Rémy
Other Authors: Transferts critiques anglophones (TransCrit), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2023
Subjects:
same-sex unions
same-sex marriage
Church of England
Scottish Episcopal Church
US Episcopal Church
[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-04355690
https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2023.23
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Summary:With the adoption of same-sex marriage or marriage-like schemes by civil authorities on both sides of the North Atlantic, Anglican same-sex couples in England, Scotland and the United States have had to negotiate various forms of dissonance between the religious celebration and the legal or civil status of their unions. This often translates into couples having multiple celebrations of their unions in order to bring together the legal and the religious creatively. These multiple ceremonies evidence the grip exercised by the tradition of a single wedding ritual that is both religious and legal on the imagination of Anglican same-sex couples. Enduring attachment to this tradition has given rise to particular LGBTQ ways of relating the celebration of a union to time, thus contributing to the unravelling of a rigidly legal Anglican understanding of the marriage rite.

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