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Chapter 1: Public Discourses about Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and beyond: An Introduction -- Chapter 2: Hellish Evil, Heavenly Love: A Long-Term History of Same-Sex Sexuality and Religion in the Netherlands -- Chapter 3: Sexuality, Religion and Education: (Re)production of Culturalist Discourse in Sexual Diversity Education in the Netherlands -- Chapter 4: A Postprogressive Nation: Homophobia, Islam, and the New Social Question in the Netherlands -- Chapter 5: Culture Wars about Sexuality: A Theological Proposal for Dialogue -- Chapter 6: Queering Judaism and Masculinist Inventions: German Homonationalism around 1900 -- Chapter 7: Antisemitism and Homophobia in Polish Liberal Discourses: The Cultural Logic of Comparison and a Proposal for Intersectionality -- Chapter 8: The Changing Relation between Sexual and Gender Minorities and Religion in Finland: Some Observations in the Light of Postsecularity -- Chapter 9: Debating Homosexuality in Italy: Plural Religious Voices in the Public Sphere -- Chapter 10: The Ultraconservative Agenda against Sexual Rights in Spain: A Catholic Repertoire of Contention to Reframe Public Concerns -- Chapter 11: The Catholic Opposition to Gender and Sexual Equality in France: Reviving the Traditional Condemnation of Homosexuality during the Debates on Marriage for All? -- Chapter 12: Ecce Homo in Sweden and Serbia: State, Church, and Blasphemy -- Chapter 13: "Gays as Weapons of the Antichrist": Religious Nationalism, Homosexuality, and the Antichrist on the Russian Internet -- Chapter 14: The Empire Speaks Back: Zambian Responses to European Union LGBTI Rights Diplomacy -- Chapter 15: Conservative Islamic Forces, Global LGBT Rights, and Anticipatory Homophobia in Indonesia.

In this article, we explore the process of transitions from a military life to a civilian life. Making use of the concepts offered by Dialogical Self Theory, we explore how individuals negotiate the acquisition of new, civilian identities by integrating different, sometimes conflicting, cultural I-positions. Moreover, in this article, we explore how this narrative process is reflected through embodied processes of becoming civilian. We do so by presenting an in-depth analysis of two case studies: that of former Lieutenant Peter, who fully transitions to civilian life, and of Sergeant Emma, who opts for a hybrid outcome, combining a civilian job with working as an instructor in the military. We will argue that the narrative and embodied process of transition are intertwined in self-identity work, and that attention to the specifics of this entanglement can be useful for professionals who counsel military personnel who transition to civilian life.

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In the Netherlands, transgender people are increasingly becoming the focus of media attention, both in written media and on television. The question we raise in this article is whether the sudden popularity of trans people in the Dutch media can be seen as a moment of interruption and destabilising through which the contours of new paths of gender identification become imaginable, or whether, upon closer scrutiny, the media coverage of trans lives merely or mostly reinforces dominant, binary gender ideologies. We use the concept of 'transgender scripts' to explore the particularities of the representation of trans people in three national newspapers as well as two television programmes in the time frame 1991-2016. Trends in media reporting show that, in recent years, it has become more common to speak of transgender persons in affirmative ways. This affirmation, however, seems to come more easily when trans narratives confirm norms of gender, whiteness, youth, and national identity. We, therefore, argue for the inclusion of (sub-cultural) trans perspectives that show the variety in gender identity, including also non-binary identities, as well as cultural background and social and bodily experiences.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Transforming bodies and religions: powers and agencies in Europe -- Introduction to governing bodies -- 1 The secular body in the Dutch field of sexual health -- 2 SRHR, the liberated body, and the primacy of conscience: probing beyond the secular/religious binary -- 3 The religious embodiments of Drag Sethlas: blasphemous popular art and the religious/secular divide before the Spanish court -- Introduction to narrating bodies -- 4 Negotiating transformation and difference: women's stories of conversion to Judaism and Islam -- 5 Embodying transformation: religious and gender transitions in Jewish autobiography -- 6 "The Richest Material for Moral Reflection": narrated bodies and narrative ethics -- 7 Exploring new vocabularies in conversations about religion, race, politics, and justice -- Introduction to negotiating bodies -- 8 (Re)Negotiating embodiment when moving out of Islam: an empirical inquiry into 'A Secular Body' -- 9 Vacillating in and out of whiteness: non­religiosity and racial (dis)identification among the Iranian­Dutch -- 10 Women wearing the tallit: tracing gender, belonging, and conversion of new Jewish women -- Afterword: corporate, corporal, collective: reflections on bodies, genres, and the ongoing troubling of the categories of religion and the secular -- Index.

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This written version of various conversations came into being as a response to Dutch entertainer Claudia de Breij's 2016 New Year's Eve cabaret performance. We were enticed to write something about this performance because of the numerous ambiguities that were present in it. What was striking was the fact that we, a group of Dutch and Belgian academics and activists, working in different disciplines but united by our mutual interests in and passion for the themes of (super-)diversity, gender and sexuality, and religion and societal matters, each interpreted this performance differently. From a conciliatory, interconnecting cabaret performance in which alterity and difference were (re)presented as something positive, to a performance that confirmed already-existing stereotypes rather than subverting them: all these different interpretations and impressions are explained in detail in the following diffractive dialogue that was engendered by and through various conversations that took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands in January, May, August, and September 2017.