ABSTRACT
This chapter brings the focus to the role of queer religious geographies, by exploring and interrogating the various ways through which the boundaries between the religious and the queer blur in through evolving scenarios in contemporary Indonesia. The chapter starts by considering previous literature on queer and religious geographies, to determine the lack of scholarship bringing both together. Following this, the chapter focuses on the Indonesian organisation Youth Interfaith Forum on Sexuality (YIFoS) to assess its contribution to the creation of queer religious spaces such as the Young Queer Faith and Sexuality Camp, which it subsequently explores to address the ways queer religious geographies are produced and inhibited. The Indonesian case reveals the existence of unconventional queer geographies incorporating religious elements, thus challenging ‘Western’ secularist imaginaries of queer emancipation.
