Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa

Herausgeber: Klinken, Adriaan Van; Chitando, Ezra

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book with multidisciplinary perspectives on religion and homosexuality in Africa. It presents case studies from across the continent, from Egypt to Zimbabwe and from Senegal to Kenya, and covers religious traditions such as Islam, Christianity and Rastafarianism. The contributors explore the role of religion in the politicisation of homosexuality, investigate local and global mobilisations of power, critically examine dominant religious discourses, and highlight the emergence of counter-discourses. Hence they reveal the crucial yet ambivalent public role of religion in matters of sexuality, social justice and human rights in contemporary Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781472445513
• ISBN-10: 1472445511
• Artikelnr.: 45002422

Autorenporträt

Adriaan van Klinken is Associate Professor of Religion and African Studies in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds (UK). His research focuses on issues of gender, sexuality and public life in contemporary Christianity in Africa. In addition to various articles in academic journals, in 2013 he published the book Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity: Gender Controversies in Times of AIDS (Ashgate). Ezra Chitando is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, Classics and Philosophy at the University of Zimbabwe. He also serves as theological consultant for the Ecumenical HIV and AIDS Initiative in Africa (EHAIA) of the World Council of Churches. He has widely published on religion in Africa, in recent years

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Public Religion, Homophobia and the Politics of Homosexuality
in Africa Adriaan van Klinken and Ezra Chitando I The Politicisation of
Homosexuality 1. 'For God and For My Country': Pentecostal-Charismatic
Churches and the Framing of a New Political Discourse in Uganda Barbara
Bompani 2. Uniting a Divided Nation? Nigerian Muslim and Christian
Responses to the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act Danoye Oguntola-Laguda
and Adriaan van Klinken 3. Discourses on Homosexuality in Egypt: When
Religion and the State Cooperate Serena Tolino 4. 'We Will Chop Their heads
Off': Homosexuality versus Religio-political Grandstanding in Zimbabwe
Molly Manyonganise 5. 'Un-natural, 'un-African' and 'un-Islamic': The Three
Pronged Onslaught Undermining Homosexual Freedom in Kenya Hassan J. Ndzovu
6. Côte d'Ivoire and the New Homophobia: The Autochthonous Ethic and the
Spirit of Neo-Liberalism Joseph Hellweg II Global and Local Mobilisations
7. An African or Un-African Sexual Identity? Religion, Globalisation and
Sexual Politics in sub-Saharan Africa Kapya Kaoma 8. The Extraversion of
Homophobia: Global Politics and Sexuality in Uganda Jia Hui Lee 9.
Religious Inspiration: Indigenous Mobilisation against LGBTI Rights in
Post-conflict Liberia Ashley Currier and Joëlle M. Cruz 10. Islamic
Movements against Homosexuality in Senegal: The Fight against AIDS as
Catalyst Christophe Broqua 11. One Love or Chanting Down Same-Sex
Relations? Queering Zimbabwean Rastafari Perspectives on Homosexuality
Fortune Sibanda 12. Narratives of 'Saints' and 'Sinners' in Uganda:
Contemporary (Re)presentations of the 1886 Story of 'Queer' Mwanga and
Ganda 'Martyrs' Prince Karakire Guma III Contestation, Subversion and
Resistance 13. Critique and Alternative Imaginations: Homosexuality and
Religion in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature Pauline Mateveke 14.
Christianity, Human Rights and LGBTI Advocacy: The Case of Dette Resources
Foundation in Zambia Adriaan van Klinken 15. 'I Was On Fire': The Challenge
of Counter-intimacies within Zimbabwean Christianity Nathanael Homewood
16. Critical Realism and LGBTIQ Rights in Africa Richard McCarty and Jay
Breneman Appendix: African LGBTI Manifesto