Signs of the Times, Signs of Places: Reconfigurations of the Ways Heterosexuals Think the Sexual Likes of Homosexuals

Abstract

From an ethnography carried out in an evangelical church in the city of São Paulo (Brazil), this article discusses the nexus between religion and sexuality in the urban context. Through what some self-proclaimed heterosexual young churchgoers in question, it was possible to reflect on aspects of classification, hierarchy and judgment related to dissident sexual likes. More specifically, we seek here to analyze the emergence and decline of cosmologies, discourses and socializing strategies on homosexuality among evangelicals. It also examines conceiving modes and relate with dissent around the moralities and expressions of sexuality within the church and in urban environments of sociability. The article presents, finally, a reflection on the movement of people between different social worlds and on the modes in which these youngsters reconfigure the sense of religion and sexuality.