ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores key areas that interweave with the chapters, as well as suggesting further research avenues, gaps and ways of knowing. It has gives examples of where friendly spaces can be found, negotiated and used, as well as noting that spiritual cultures can also be exclusionary, unfriendly and/or unaccommodating, sometimes despite their 'open' theological rhetoric. The book examines experiences that contest the presumed relationships between LGBTQI people and their supposed hostile/accepting religions/spiritual traditions. It has shown that there is significant complexity of gender/sexual identifications and spiritual/religious affiliations, practices and lives within Anglo-American contexts. The book offers a Global North/minority world account, such that spiritualities, queer and spaces are inflected with authors' specific meanings, understandings and conceptualizations. It found that spirituality was not distanced or separate from, intersecting with sexualities and gender identities to the extent that differentiating them was not possible.