Minoritary mystique: the religious experience of transgender boys
Male Transsexuality; Religious Experience; Care of the self; Mystique-minority
In the current context of intensified intolerance and conservatism on the issue of gender identities and sexualities, the incursion of transgender men in religious congregations creates ruptures in power relations, knowledge and subjectivation. Thus, the present thesis proposes as a research question: is it possible for religious transsexual men another subjective experience outside the framework of regulation imposed by religions? In the field of gender and religion studies, this project is situated in the studies about religious experience and its general objective is to analyze this experience from the religious experience of transsexual men. The research seeks to approach an interdisciplinary perspective through a composition of ethnographic and cartographic methods. The thesis proposes the concept of mystique-minority for the analysis of the religious experience of transsexual men. For this, we use the concepts of "consumer production" and "mystique" by Michel de Certeau, "care of the self" by Michel Foucault, and "becoming-minority" by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.