A key thread of research on how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons of faith navigate and make sense of gender and sexual identities and desires that defy their religious traditions’ teachings focuses on identity conflict, management, negotiation, and reconciliation. Drawing on interviews with 64 Orthodox Jewish same‐sex attracted persons in Israel, supplemented by physical and digital ethnographic data, I argue that the conflict frame is empirically imprecise and conceptually flawed. I demonstrate fluidity and ambivalence vis‐à‐vis religiosity and sexual identity and argue that ambivalence is generative: In the process of making sense of their sexual and religious selves, my respondents challenge what it means to be Orthodox and what it means to be same‐sex attracted, thereby challenging the conflict frame's categorical schema. I then make the case for a more contextualized and dynamic framework for theorizing LGBT negotiations of religious and sexual identities. I also observe that the limitations of the conflict lens are symptomatic of broader tendencies in the sociology of religion to rely on U.S. and Christian cases and a pattern of limited engagement with work in other disciplines and subdisciplines.

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超越身份冲突的宗教同性恋者：以色列正统LGBT犹太人的经验教训

有关女同性恋者，男同性恋者，双性恋者，变性者和同性恋者（LGBTQ +）如何驾驭并理解性别和性身份以及违反其宗教传统教义的愿望的关键研究重点在于身份冲突，管理，谈判，和解。根据对以色列64位东正教犹太同志吸引者的访谈，再加上实物和数字人种志数据，我认为冲突框架在经验上不精确且在概念上存在缺陷。我表现出相对于宗教信仰和性认同的流动性和矛盾性，并认为矛盾性是产生性的：在理清自己的性和宗教自我的过程中，我的受访者挑战了东正教的含义和相同的含义。吸引性，从而挑战冲突框架 的分类架构。然后，我提出了一个更为背景化和动态的框架，以对宗教和性别认同的LGBT谈判进行理论化。我还观察到，冲突镜头的局限性是宗教社会学倾向于依靠美国和基督教案件的更广泛趋势的征兆，以及在其他学科和子学科中从事工作的方式有限的征兆。