Sociologists of religion have recently started to pay more attention to the ways gender and religion are deeply interconnected. However, these analyses rarely focus their attention on transgender experiences within religious spaces. Building on research that points to the ways religions may “cisgender reality” and calls for a “gender lens” on religion, this article explores some ways transgender people experience religion. Specifically, we analyze how transgender people experience conservative Christian notions of gender predicated upon cisnormative and patriarchal norms. Our analysis offers an example of applying a transgender inclusive gender lens to the sociology of religion, and expands prior work on gender and religion by incorporating the experiences of transgender people in religious contexts.

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将跨性别体验纳入宗教社会学中更具包容性的性别视角

宗教社会学家最近开始更加关注性别和宗教之间的密切联系。然而，这些分析很少将注意力集中在宗教空间内的跨性别体验上。基于指出宗教可能“顺性别现实”的方式并呼吁对宗教进行“性别视角”的研究，本文探讨了跨性别者体验宗教的一些方式。具体来说，我们分析了跨性别者如何体验基于顺式规范和父权规范的保守的基督教性别观念。我们的分析提供了一个将跨性别包容性性别视角应用于宗教社会学的例子，并通过将跨性别者在宗教环境中的经历纳入先前关于性别和宗教的工作。