Lived religion and RuPauls Drag Race.
Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life, author Meredith B. McGuire writes: “At the level of the individual, religion is not fixed, unitary, or even coherent. We should expect that all persons’ religious practices and the stories with which they make sense of their lives are always changing, adapting, and growing.”1 For McGuire, examining religion as “lived” means to accept that “religion, at the individual level, [is] an ever-changing, multifaceted, often messy—even contradictory—amalgam of beliefs and practices that are not necessarily those religious institutions consider important[.]”2 In taking this perspective, we must carefully consider the impact of gender on one’s experiences of religion and spirituality. Put simply: “Gender profoundly affects people’s religion-as-lived because gender differentiation permeates so many aspects of life in most cultures.”Taking off from McGuire, compose a 2000-word essay that describes, analyzes, and makes an original argument related to the “ever-changing, multifaceted, often messy” relationship between gender and religion-as-lived (3 sources all together, 1 has to be refrence to Mcguire, other 2 can be 2 other scholarly
