Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality Devon Price PhD and a reclamation of the

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Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality Devon Price PhD and a reclamation of theWhat would it mean to queer contemplation? To disentangle contemplative spirituality from heteronormativity, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity, and instead engage with openness, curiosity, and a little weirdness? The world of contemplative Christianity has yielded to the same voices for far too long, many of whom are from centuries before our time, with lives unlike our own, and often from experiences disconnected from marginalization, oppression, and