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I Felt The End Before It Came

Hardback
Published : Tuesday 9 May 2023
ISBN : 9780735242104
Price : €26.90


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Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays; voting in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on homosexuality would for him. But even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his congregations presiding elder, catalyzing his disassociation, the distinction between in and out isn t always clear. Still in the midst of a lifelong disentanglement, Cox grapples with the groups cultish tactics - from gaslighting to shunning - and their resulting harms - from simmering anger to substance abuse - all while redefining its concepts through a queer lens. Can Paradise be a bathhouse, a concert hall, or a room full of books? With great candour and disarming self-awareness, Cox takes readers on a journey from his early days as a solicitous door-to-door preac



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