Queer and Religious Alliances in Family Law Politics and Beyond is edited by Nausica Palazzo and myself and has recently been published with the Anthem Press Law and Society series. We launched the book in Lisbon on 12 July 2022 at Nova School of Law and a recording of the event is available here. We are on Twitter @queerreligious where we will announce events and materials related to our book, including reviews of our book listed here:

Michigan Journal of Law & Society, 3 Mich. J.L. & Soc’y 130–37 (Jeremiah Ho rev., 2024)

Law Library Journal, 115 Law Libr. J. 480–81 (Shannon Roddy rev., 2023)

AG AboutGender: International Journal of Gender Studies, 12 AG AboutGender 437–42 (Francesca Miccoli rev., 2023)

Journal of Law and Religion, 38 J.L. & Religion 342-46 (Alexa J. Windsor rev., 2023)

Jeffrey A. Redding, Queer and Religious Alliances in India and Beyond, Law School Policy Review (The Queer Column), March 2, 2023.

We are grateful to the artist Evan Honerkamp for permission to use his work A Certain Person’s Burden of Tomorrow for the cover art.

Table of Contents

Introduction (pp. 1-11)

Nausica Palazzo and Jeffrey A. Redding

PART I

MAPPING THE CONCEPTUAL TERRAIN

1. Secularism, Same-Sex Relations, and Legal Pluralism (pp. 15-28)

Mariano Croce

PART II

RELIGIOUS–QUEER PERSPECTIVES

2. Custom, Preference, or Nature?: Mormon Polygamy, Same-Sex Marriage, and Natural Law Theory (pp. 31-51)

Frederick Mark Gedicks

3. Cleaving Marriage: Appraising the Conservative Blowback after Same-Sex Marriage (pp. 53-72)

Robin Fretwell Wilson and Rebecca Valek

4. A Multiplication of Blessings: Families and LGBTQ Rights within the Waldensian Church (pp. 73-86)

Ilaria Valenzi

PART III

QUEER–RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES

5. ‘Ohana as a Way of Life: Queer Friendship in the Mediterranean Regime (pp. 89-104)

Beatrice Gusmano

6. The Abolition of Legal Marriage in Israel as a Potential Queer–Religious Project (pp. 105-23)

Ayelet Blecher-Prigat and Noy Naaman

7. Queer and Religious Convergences around Nonconjugal Couples: What Could Go Wrong? (p. 125-46)

Nausica Palazzo

8. Queer Politics, Consensual Non-Monogamy, and Religion: Notes on the Ethics of Coalition Work (pp. 147-71)

Christian Klesse

PART IV

FUTURE TRAJECTORIES

9. Achieving Equality without a Constitution: Lessons from Israel for Queer Family Law (pp. 175-96)

Laura T. Kessler

10. Queer and Religious Political Alliances in the Pandemic Trump Era (pp. 197-217)

Jeffrey A. Redding

Contributors (pp. 219-21)

Index (pp. 223-24)