Everybody Wants to be Loved by God: The Role of Religion in Queer Refugee Resurrection

Through ethnographic research focused on the organizational caregiver, this article explores the role of theological narrative, religious rituals, and faith community for queer refugees on their path toward resurrection in the host countries, Sweden and Germany. By interviewing representatives of religious and secular organizations that meet (queer) refugees, I explore the potentially unique role that religious communities play in mending past and present realities. In comparing existing literature to the ethnographic material from interviews with secular and religious representatives, this article argues that religious organizations have the potential for unique and critical support for queer refugees, through the language of faith and religion, but that they do not live into this potential. The need for trauma-sensitive, queer-inclusive theological faith spaces in the lives of queer refugees is greater than what is being offered in Sweden and Germany.