A K T Yip
Biographic Data
| ID | 14411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A K T Yip |
| GIVEN NAMES | A K T |
| FAMILY NAME | Yip |
| SIGNATURE | YIP A K T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8727-4201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 324 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Understanding factors that affect wellbeing in trans people “later” in transition
The results highlight the importance of social support, protective legislations, awareness of trans issues in the general public, and the need of improving the knowledge held by non-specialist healthcare providers
Intersecting Religion and Sexuality
Listen to the podcast on Chapter 2: Ethnicity, Gender and Class in the Experiences of Gay Muslims This edited collection, Intersecting Religion and Sexuality: Sociological Perspectives, outlines what an intersectional analysis can offer research into religion and sexuality. It draws on various research projects which focus on different facets of this topic, such as queer sexualities, unmarried motherhood and heterosexuality, to explore how religi…
"Along the Wings of a Tornado"
In 1917 the Australian photographer Frank Hurley, renowned in Australia and Europe as an aesthete for his theatrical photographs of Antarctica, was commissioned as Australia's official First World War photographer. His tour encompassed France, Belgium, and finally Palestine where he, more concerned with visual experimentation than historical documentary, experimented first with color and then aerial photography. Hurley occupied a contested role o…
The terminology of identities between, outside and beyond the gender binary – A systematic review
The gendering of heterosexual religious young adults’ imagined futures
This article draws from a mixed-methods project that examined religion, youth, gender, and sexuality among young women and men aged between 18 and 25, from various religious traditions, and living in the UK. It charts how unmarried heterosexuals imagined their future lives in relation to marriage and parenthood. We deploy conceptual literature on ‘imagined future’, which is under-used in the sociology of religion, to explore what difference, if a…
Research on sexuality and religion
A comparison of mental health symptomatology and levels of social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals who identify as binary and non-binary
Background : Previous research has consistently reported high rates of mental health symptomatology and lower social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals. However, these studies have failed to distinguish between transgender people who identify within the gender binary and those who identify as non-binary. Aims : This study aimed to compare levels of mental health symptomatology (anxiety, depression, and non-suicidal self-in…
Intimacy negotiated
Bringing into dialogue conceptual literature on bisexuality, intimacy, and personal community, this article illuminates the lived experiences of 80 bisexual women and men in the UK. The data were collected through questionnaire and individual interview. The article discusses two empirical themes, beginning with the participants' narratives on their engagement with the dominant sexual and gender order - which hegemonizes 'monosexuality' and 'compu…
Looking for Allah
This chapter tells stories about LGBTQI Muslims not only as sexual citizens or beings, but as whole human beings whose everyday experiences cannot be fully captured by turning the spotlight on the sexual/gendered dimension of their lives alone. It explores the participants' experiences and views in relation to the development of LGBTQI Muslim politics, specifically in the form of support networks, such as support groups like Imaan, Naz Project, a…
Queer Spiritual Spaces
Drawn from extensive, new and rich empirical research across the UK, Canada and USA, Queer Spiritual Spaces investigates the contemporary socio-cultural practices of belief, by those who have historically been, and continue to be, excluded or derided by mainstream religions and alternative spiritualities. As the first monograph to be directly informed by 'queer' subjectivities whilst dealing with divergent spiritualities on an international scale…
Gender equality and religion
This article presents findings from research on young adults in the UK from diverse religious backgrounds. Utilizing questionnaires, interviews and video diaries, it assesses how religious young adults understood and managed the tensions in popular discourse between gender equality as an enshrined value and aspirational narrative, and religion as purportedly instituting gender inequality. The article shows that, despite varied understandings, and…
Living Out Islam
Journal Article Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims Get access Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, by SCOTT SIRAJ AL-HAQQ KUGLE. New York: New York University Press, 2014, 275 pp.; $27.00 (paper). Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip University of Nottingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Vol…
Religious young adults recounting the past
Schooling can be a pivotal time in young people’s formative experience when identities are negotiated and forged. However, contradictory dominant cultures can operate within the school context, making it very challenging for individuals to negotiate their religious and sexual identities within a sexualised and heteronormative space. This essay draws on interview data relating to 18- to 25-year-olds of diverse religious faiths in the UK, who recou…
Living Spirituality and Sexuality
Drawing upon two conceptually and methodologically related projects in France and Britain, the authors illuminate lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians’ religious orientations, beliefs and practices. The samples demonstrated striking similarities and differences. Participants generally strongly disagreed with the Church’s censorious teachings on non-heterosexuality, but the British sample appeared more critical. The French sample also experienced …
Special feature
Islam and sexuality
The quest for intimate/sexual citizenship
Researching Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Christians and Muslims
This paper highlights some thematic reflections primarily based on two empirical research projects on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) Christians and Muslims. It begins by discussing reflexivity by way of contextualising the subsequent exploration of specific themes. This is followed by a discussion of the plight of LGB Christians and Muslims which renders research on this population highly sensitive. The paper then explores the theme of research…
Policy Implications of Ageing Sexualities
This article aims to open up debate on the policy implications of ageing sexualities. The article begins by discussing the heteronormative perspective that frames current discourse on older people's needs and citizenship. It then presents data from an empirical study to highlight the concerns that older lesbians and gay men have about housing, health and social service provision, work and job security, and relationship recognition. The article il…
Resurgent Islam
Religion and the Politics of Spirituality/Sexuality
Drawing upon my research on British LGB Christians and Muslims, and theoretical literature on ?identity?, ?identity politics?, and ?sexual citizenship?, I begin by discussing some advantages and disadvantages of merging the personal and the professional in research. I then argue that in order to understand why some LGB people stay in seemingly homophobic institutional religion, we need to understand the connection between spirituality and sexuali…
Queering Religious Texts
Religious authority figures often use religious texts as the primary basis for censuring homosexuality. In recent years, however, non-heterosexual Christians and Muslims have begun to contest the discursively produced boundary of sexual morality. Drawing upon two research projects on non-heterosexual Christians and Muslims, this article explores the three approaches embedded in this strategy. While acknowledging that homosexuality is indeed portr…
‘By Name United, by Sex Divided
The current controversies in relation to homosexuality - which emanated from the western quarters but quickly engulfed the entire Anglican Communion - highlight two significant issues. In our view, the first issue, regarding the ‘religious citizenship’ of lesbian and gay Christians, is generally a western concern. The second issue pertaining to the prospect of the disintegration of the Anglican Communion, however, needs to be examined within a gl…
Same-Sex Marriage
In the past two decades, same-sex relationship has been a contentious issue within the Christian community. Officially, almost all Christian denominations have now taken the significant, though insufficient, step in calling for the toleration of individual believers with homosexual orientation. Nevertheless, conservative quarters of the Christian community still contest that a same-sex relationship (by implication involving the ‘practice’ of one’…
Ageing in a non-heterosexual context
There is increasing recognition of the importance of social and cultural differences in shaping the diversity of the ageing experience in contemporary Britain. Various social and cultural factors, such as those associated with class, ethnicity, gender and disability, influence people's living circumstances and sources of support in later life. While they have been the subject of considerable speculation, ageing in a non-heterosexual context remai…
Queering Religious Texts
Religious authority figures often use religious texts as the primary basis for censuring homosexuality. In recent years, however, non-heterosexual Christians and Muslims have begun to contest the discursively produced boundary of sexual morality. Drawing upon two research projects on non-heterosexual Christians and Muslims, this article explores the three approaches embedded in this strategy. While acknowledging that homosexuality is indeed portr…
The Persistence of Faith Among Nonheterosexual Christians
The neosecularization thesis, which combines the 'secularization' and 'postsecularization' paradigms, argues that religion is in a constant state of transformation (thus persistence). It also argues that the examination of 'secularization' needs to be conducted on three levels: macro, meso, and micro. Drawing from a quantitative and qualitative study involving 565 nonheterosexual Christians in the United Kingdom, this article aims to lend credenc…
Negotiating Space with Family and Kin in Identity Construction
This paper highlights significant moments, strategies, and themes in British non-heterosexual Muslims' management of familial and kin relations. Significant socio-cultural and religious factors constitute the framework within which they negotiate such relations. These factors are: the strict religious censure of non-heterosexuality (specifically homosexuality) based on various Islamic written sources, the pervasive cultural censure of homosexuali…
Attacking the Attacker
This paper analyses the accounts constructed by 60 gay male Christians in partnership as stigma management strategies at the level of cognition and rhetoric. Four strategies are identified: (i) attacking the stigma; (ii) attacking the stigmatizer; (iii) use of positive personal experience; and (iv) use of the ontogeneric argument. These strategies are interchangeably and collectively used to dismiss the credibility of the institutionalized Church…
Dare to Differ
This paper presents data collected through a postal survey of 121 gay and lesbian Catholics in Britain. It aims to examine the respondents' assessment of the official Catholic positions on sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular. The Catholic Church labels the homosexual inclination an “objective disorder” and the engagement in homosexual genital acts “intrinsically disordered.” A vast majority of respondents, however, found the Chur…
Ageing in a non-heterosexual context
There is increasing recognition of the importance of social and cultural differences in shaping the diversity of the ageing experience in contemporary Britain. Various social and cultural factors, such as those associated with class, ethnicity, gender and disability, influence people's living circumstances and sources of support in later life. While they have been the subject of considerable speculation, ageing in a non-heterosexual context remai…
Researching Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Christians and Muslims
This paper highlights some thematic reflections primarily based on two empirical research projects on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) Christians and Muslims. It begins by discussing reflexivity by way of contextualising the subsequent exploration of specific themes. This is followed by a discussion of the plight of LGB Christians and Muslims which renders research on this population highly sensitive. The paper then explores the theme of research…
Religion and the Politics of Spirituality/Sexuality
Drawing upon my research on British LGB Christians and Muslims, and theoretical literature on ?identity?, ?identity politics?, and ?sexual citizenship?, I begin by discussing some advantages and disadvantages of merging the personal and the professional in research. I then argue that in order to understand why some LGB people stay in seemingly homophobic institutional religion, we need to understand the connection between spirituality and sexuali…
A comparison of mental health symptomatology and levels of social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals who identify as binary and non-binary
Background : Previous research has consistently reported high rates of mental health symptomatology and lower social support in young treatment seeking transgender individuals. However, these studies have failed to distinguish between transgender people who identify within the gender binary and those who identify as non-binary. Aims : This study aimed to compare levels of mental health symptomatology (anxiety, depression, and non-suicidal self-in…
The quest for intimate/sexual citizenship
Islam and sexuality
The Politics of Counter-Rejection
This paper analyzes the accounts constructed by 60 gay male Christians in managing the stigma imposed on them by the Church. These accounts signify that they, having developed a positive self-image, are involved in the politics of counter-rejection of the Church and its official positions on the issue of homosexuality. Their counter-rejection of the Church as a moral arbiter is predicated on four bases: (1) the Church's ignorance of sex and sexua…
Gay Male Christian Couples and Sexual Exclusivity
This paper argues that, in the case of gay male couples, the issue of sexual exclusivity should be examined in terms of expectation and behaviour. Using this approach, a typology of three categories of gay male Christian couples is presented. Couples who were expectationally and behaviourally exclusive considered sexual exclusivity a symbol of total commitment, complete mutual satisfaction and adherence to the conventional Christian ethic of sexu…
Intimacy negotiated
Bringing into dialogue conceptual literature on bisexuality, intimacy, and personal community, this article illuminates the lived experiences of 80 bisexual women and men in the UK. The data were collected through questionnaire and individual interview. The article discusses two empirical themes, beginning with the participants' narratives on their engagement with the dominant sexual and gender order - which hegemonizes 'monosexuality' and 'compu…
Gender equality and religion
This article presents findings from research on young adults in the UK from diverse religious backgrounds. Utilizing questionnaires, interviews and video diaries, it assesses how religious young adults understood and managed the tensions in popular discourse between gender equality as an enshrined value and aspirational narrative, and religion as purportedly instituting gender inequality. The article shows that, despite varied understandings, and…
Uneven Possibilities
The article draws from focus group data generated for a UK study of the life circumstances of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals aged 50 and above, to consider some key elements of the conceptual framework we are developing for understanding the issue of non-heterosexual ageing. The article considers ways in which non-heterosexual ways of living have been positively evaluated as 'prime' experiments in late modern ways of living, and identifies three…
Gay Christians and their participation in the gay subculture
This paper examines the perceptions and participation patterns of gay Christian couples in three aspects of the gay subculture: gay Christian groups, non‐Christian gay groups, and the commercial gay scene. The respondents perceived these aspects of the subculture in terms of their different functions. Gay Christian groups were perceived to perform moral support and identity reinforcement functions. Non‐Christian gay groups were perceived to perfo…
Policy Implications of Ageing Sexualities
This article aims to open up debate on the policy implications of ageing sexualities. The article begins by discussing the heteronormative perspective that frames current discourse on older people's needs and citizenship. It then presents data from an empirical study to highlight the concerns that older lesbians and gay men have about housing, health and social service provision, work and job security, and relationship recognition. The article il…
The gendering of heterosexual religious young adults’ imagined futures
This article draws from a mixed-methods project that examined religion, youth, gender, and sexuality among young women and men aged between 18 and 25, from various religious traditions, and living in the UK. It charts how unmarried heterosexuals imagined their future lives in relation to marriage and parenthood. We deploy conceptual literature on ‘imagined future’, which is under-used in the sociology of religion, to explore what difference, if a…
Reflections on Islam and homosexuality
Gay Christians and their participation in the gay subculture
This paper examines the perceptions and participation patterns of gay Christian couples in three aspects of the gay subculture: gay Christian groups, non‐Christian gay groups, and the commercial gay scene. The respondents perceived these aspects of the subculture in terms of their different functions. Gay Christian groups were perceived to perform moral support and identity reinforcement functions. Non‐Christian gay groups were perceived to perfo…
Attacking the Attacker
This paper analyses the accounts constructed by 60 gay male Christians in partnership as stigma management strategies at the level of cognition and rhetoric. Four strategies are identified: (i) attacking the stigma; (ii) attacking the stigmatizer; (iii) use of positive personal experience; and (iv) use of the ontogeneric argument. These strategies are interchangeably and collectively used to dismiss the credibility of the institutionalized Church…
Dare to Differ
This paper presents data collected through a postal survey of 121 gay and lesbian Catholics in Britain. It aims to examine the respondents' assessment of the official Catholic positions on sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular. The Catholic Church labels the homosexual inclination an “objective disorder” and the engagement in homosexual genital acts “intrinsically disordered.” A vast majority of respondents, however, found the Chur…
Gay Male Christian Couples and Sexual Exclusivity
This paper argues that, in the case of gay male couples, the issue of sexual exclusivity should be examined in terms of expectation and behaviour. Using this approach, a typology of three categories of gay male Christian couples is presented. Couples who were expectationally and behaviourally exclusive considered sexual exclusivity a symbol of total commitment, complete mutual satisfaction and adherence to the conventional Christian ethic of sexu…
The Politics of Counter-Rejection
This paper analyzes the accounts constructed by 60 gay male Christians in managing the stigma imposed on them by the Church. These accounts signify that they, having developed a positive self-image, are involved in the politics of counter-rejection of the Church and its official positions on the issue of homosexuality. Their counter-rejection of the Church as a moral arbiter is predicated on four bases: (1) the Church's ignorance of sex and sexua…
The Persistence of Faith Among Nonheterosexual Christians
The neosecularization thesis, which combines the 'secularization' and 'postsecularization' paradigms, argues that religion is in a constant state of transformation (thus persistence). It also argues that the examination of 'secularization' needs to be conducted on three levels: macro, meso, and micro. Drawing from a quantitative and qualitative study involving 565 nonheterosexual Christians in the United Kingdom, this article aims to lend credenc…
Sexuality and the Church
Uneven Possibilities
The article draws from focus group data generated for a UK study of the life circumstances of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals aged 50 and above, to consider some key elements of the conceptual framework we are developing for understanding the issue of non-heterosexual ageing. The article considers ways in which non-heterosexual ways of living have been positively evaluated as 'prime' experiments in late modern ways of living, and identifies three…
Reflections on Islam and homosexuality
‘By Name United, by Sex Divided
The current controversies in relation to homosexuality - which emanated from the western quarters but quickly engulfed the entire Anglican Communion - highlight two significant issues. In our view, the first issue, regarding the ‘religious citizenship’ of lesbian and gay Christians, is generally a western concern. The second issue pertaining to the prospect of the disintegration of the Anglican Communion, however, needs to be examined within a gl…
Same-Sex Marriage
In the past two decades, same-sex relationship has been a contentious issue within the Christian community. Officially, almost all Christian denominations have now taken the significant, though insufficient, step in calling for the toleration of individual believers with homosexual orientation. Nevertheless, conservative quarters of the Christian community still contest that a same-sex relationship (by implication involving the ‘practice’ of one’…
Ageing in a non-heterosexual context
There is increasing recognition of the importance of social and cultural differences in shaping the diversity of the ageing experience in contemporary Britain. Various social and cultural factors, such as those associated with class, ethnicity, gender and disability, influence people's living circumstances and sources of support in later life. While they have been the subject of considerable speculation, ageing in a non-heterosexual context remai…
Negotiating Space with Family and Kin in Identity Construction
This paper highlights significant moments, strategies, and themes in British non-heterosexual Muslims' management of familial and kin relations. Significant socio-cultural and religious factors constitute the framework within which they negotiate such relations. These factors are: the strict religious censure of non-heterosexuality (specifically homosexuality) based on various Islamic written sources, the pervasive cultural censure of homosexuali…
Religion and the Politics of Spirituality/Sexuality
Drawing upon my research on British LGB Christians and Muslims, and theoretical literature on ?identity?, ?identity politics?, and ?sexual citizenship?, I begin by discussing some advantages and disadvantages of merging the personal and the professional in research. I then argue that in order to understand why some LGB people stay in seemingly homophobic institutional religion, we need to understand the connection between spirituality and sexuali…
Queering Religious Texts
Religious authority figures often use religious texts as the primary basis for censuring homosexuality. In recent years, however, non-heterosexual Christians and Muslims have begun to contest the discursively produced boundary of sexual morality. Drawing upon two research projects on non-heterosexual Christians and Muslims, this article explores the three approaches embedded in this strategy. While acknowledging that homosexuality is indeed portr…
Policy Implications of Ageing Sexualities
This article aims to open up debate on the policy implications of ageing sexualities. The article begins by discussing the heteronormative perspective that frames current discourse on older people's needs and citizenship. It then presents data from an empirical study to highlight the concerns that older lesbians and gay men have about housing, health and social service provision, work and job security, and relationship recognition. The article il…
Resurgent Islam
The quest for intimate/sexual citizenship
Researching Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Christians and Muslims
This paper highlights some thematic reflections primarily based on two empirical research projects on lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) Christians and Muslims. It begins by discussing reflexivity by way of contextualising the subsequent exploration of specific themes. This is followed by a discussion of the plight of LGB Christians and Muslims which renders research on this population highly sensitive. The paper then explores the theme of research…
Islam and sexuality
Living Spirituality and Sexuality
Drawing upon two conceptually and methodologically related projects in France and Britain, the authors illuminate lesbian, gay and bisexual Christians’ religious orientations, beliefs and practices. The samples demonstrated striking similarities and differences. Participants generally strongly disagreed with the Church’s censorious teachings on non-heterosexuality, but the British sample appeared more critical. The French sample also experienced …
Special feature
Religious young adults recounting the past
Schooling can be a pivotal time in young people’s formative experience when identities are negotiated and forged. However, contradictory dominant cultures can operate within the school context, making it very challenging for individuals to negotiate their religious and sexual identities within a sexualised and heteronormative space. This essay draws on interview data relating to 18- to 25-year-olds of diverse religious faiths in the UK, who recou…
Living Out Islam
Journal Article Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims Get access Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, by SCOTT SIRAJ AL-HAQQ KUGLE. New York: New York University Press, 2014, 275 pp.; $27.00 (paper). Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip University of Nottingham [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Vol…
Looking for Allah
This chapter tells stories about LGBTQI Muslims not only as sexual citizens or beings, but as whole human beings whose everyday experiences cannot be fully captured by turning the spotlight on the sexual/gendered dimension of their lives alone. It explores the participants' experiences and views in relation to the development of LGBTQI Muslim politics, specifically in the form of support networks, such as support groups like Imaan, Naz Project, a…
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