ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a simple engagement with James Alison's "attempt to find the shape of a new story that starts to emerge when there is a rupture in impossibility". It engages with religion since its impact is rather immense in how feminist think about and through the world—whether one is religious or not. Butler, Habermas, Taylor, and West in The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere illustrated ways both to reengage and challenge the use of religious perspectives to contemplate contemporary issues. And when religion meets sexuality, narratives can often become stuck in ideas of sin and intolerance. Or as John Boswell articulated in his landmark study Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, "the common idea that religious belief—Christian or other—has been the cause of intolerance in regard to gay people" is simply not true. The chapter focuses on Catholic theology and explores how liking might operate as an alternative language in the changing landscape of sexuality and religion.
