Until I overflow: queer Pentecostal intimacies in & beyond Brazil

This dissertation ethnographically examines Pentecostal igrejas inclusivas (inclusive churches) and the everyday intimacies of queer Pentecostal life. It argues that the intersection of queer and Pentecostal is not one of contradistinction but of possibility for imagining otherwise the intimacies and affects that shape minoritarian life. By tracking queer Pentecostal intimacies in spaces of friendship, kinship, imagination, conversation, dreams, and migrant and diasporic life, the dissertation illustrates the importance of intimacy and the minor in animating contemporary queer world-making projects, especially those that do not necessarily announce themselves as legible interventions into the political.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2025

Author dc:creator

• Coyle, Joseph A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Manalansan, Martin
• Orta, Andrew
• Moodie, Ellen
• Karam, John
• Seitz, David

• Queer Anthropology
• Anthropology Of Religion
• Affect Studies
• Black Studies
• Pentecostalism
• Brazil

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2025 Joseph Coyle

Language dc:language

en, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130102

OAI record oai:identifier

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=etdms&identifier=oai%3Awww.ideals.illinois.edu%3A2142%2F130102