ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the practices and connections formed around LGBTQI spirituality on social networking sites, blogs, and webpages. It emphasizes the attention to practices and the selective processes that form queer spiritual practice and focuses on the crossings of queer, spiritual and digital. The chapter suggests the way in which LGBTQI individuals interested in spirituality do not simply respond to a 'spiritual marketplace' of religious options but also interactively negotiated and produced spiritual affinities and practices. It argues that queer digital spirituality, in as far as it has a shared sense of feeling, can be markedly careful in its modes of attention. The chapter examines the concrete meanings and practices attached to the spiritual connections created by study participants, whose multiple alignments defy the normative categories given by many demographic surveys of religion. It looks at various ways in which study participants brought together their diffuse and shifting alliances to various spiritual traditions and practices.
