DOI
10.32436/2475-6423.1145
Abstract
Starting in the late 1990s, Chinese Catholic priests, sisters, and seminarians began journeying to the Philippines to undergo religious and spiritual formation. This paper documents this journey and characterizes it as a kind of queer pilgrimage. Recognizing the queer theoretical parallels between minoritized populations under hegemony and Catholic life under socialism, this paper calls for attention to the queer work of imagining futures that emerges through processes of movement, encounter, and reflexivity across new political and social spaces. Specifically, this paper highlights how state-religious relations under socialism can differentially shape how Chinese Catholics think of themselves, faith formation, and how they engage with each other.
Recommended Citation
Bayuga, George Wu
(2024)
"A Queer Chinese Pilgrimage: Encountering Catholic Life In Manila,"
Journal of Global Catholicism:
Vol. 8:
Iss.
2, Article 2. p.43-74.
DOI: 10.32436/2475-6423.1145
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/jgc/vol8/iss2/2
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