How They Became Allies
The Korean Protestant Regime of Truth and the Ethical Subjectivation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3656165 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ji Yoon Ryu (0009-0004-4155-7881, Asian Center for Theological Studies and Mission), Seung Soo Kim (0009-0000-7183-6014, Chulalongkorn University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00918369.2025.2475380 |
| PMID | 40131373 |
| OpenAlex | W4408880048 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
This study examines the self-formation of Protestant allies within South Korea's heteronormative Protestant regime of truth, where opposition to LGBTQ rights remains strong. While conservative Protestant groups actively resist LGBTQ advocacy, some Protestants support sexual minorities despite facing personal and institutional risks. Drawing on Foucault's theory of subjectivation and Butler's concept of ethical subjectivation, this study frames allyship as an ongoing performative process shaped by relational encounters and acts of solidaristic engagement. Based on in-depth interviews with 12 Protestant individuals, it identifies key triggers for desubjectivation, such as disillusionment with Protestant institutions, unaccountable suffering, and exposure to counter-discourses, and examines the practices through which they reconfigure their subjectivity. These include participating in the Queer Culture Festival, publicly coming out as allies, and reappropriating religious rituals as acts of resistance. By disrupting the conditions of recognition within the Protestant regime of truth and destabilizing their prior Protestant identity, Protestant allies reconfigure their subjectivity and redefine what it means to be Protestant while assuming ethical responsibility for LGBTQ individuals
Criminology · Political science · Protestantism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology
Giving an Account of Oneself
Straight Allies: What Predicts Heterosexuals' Alliance With the LGBT Community?1
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
Teaching Children How to Think
The Other Side of their Zeal
The Shifting Moral Authority of the Conservative Evangelicals’ Anti-LGBT Movement in South Korea
Making Up Allies
Heterosexual Ally Development in Counseling Psychologists
Three Periods of Korean Queer Cinema
Ethics
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self
Conscience Adherents” Revisited
Critique et subjectivation. Foucault et Butler sur le sujet
Security, Territory, Population
Religion and Public Perceptions of Gays and Lesbians in South Korea
Evangelical Protestant Women's Views on Homosexuality and LGBT Rights in Korea
South Korean Evangelical Narratives on North Koreans and Homosexuals
Gay Seouls
Paths of Integration for Sexual Minorities in Korea
Evangelical Christian Discourse in South Korea on the LGBT
The Psychic Life of Power
Critique, Dissent, Disciplinarity
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |