ABSTRACT
I write about the significance of religion in everyday life from the vantage of having participated in Roman Catholicism, which, it must be frankly admitted, has made itself a secretive and abusive church, 1 built on “homosocial” (Sedgwick 1985) power: men governing men and excluding women; men in a culture of homoerotic images too often and too loudly denying genuine life beyond heterosexuality; and willing to go to great lengths to protect male narcissism (cf. Jordan 2000). How, then, could one study everyday life in relation to such religion without accounting for the everyday ethical habitat of the tradition and institution that is ingredient to speaking in the first place?
