Adriaan Van Klinken, Johanna Stiebert, Brian Sebyala, Fredrick Hudson

Sacred Queer Stories (eBook, ePUB)

Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives & the Bible

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An invaluable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling, a key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies.

Presenting the deeply moving personal life stories of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees in Nairobi, Kenya alongside an analysis of the process in which they creatively engaged with two Bible stories - Daniel in the Lions' Den (Old Testament) and Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery (New Testament) - Sacred Queer Stories explores how readings of biblical stories can reveal their experiences of struggle, their hopes for the future, and their faith in God and humanity. Arguing that the telling of life-stories of marginalised people, such as of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, affirms embodied existence and agency, is socially and politically empowering, and enables human solidarity, the authors also show how the Bible as an authoritative religious text and popular cultural archive in Africa is often used against LGBTQ+ people but can also be reclaimed as a site of meaning, healing, and empowerment. The result of a collaborative project between UK-based academics and a Nairobi-based organisation of Ugandan LGBTQ+ refugees, the book provides a valuable insight into the narrative politics and theologies of LGBTQ+ life-storytelling. A key text for those in African Humanities, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, and Refugee Studies, among others, the book expresses an innovative methodology of inter-reading queer life-stories and biblical stories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800102880
• Artikelnr.: 62239453

Autorenporträt

ADRIAAN VAN KLINKEN is Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds and Director of the Leeds University Centre for African Studies and of the Centre for Religion and Public Life. His books include Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism and Arts of Resistance in Africa (Penn State University Press, 2019), Religions in Contemporary Africa: An Introduction (co-authored with Laura Grillo and Hassan Ndzovu; Routledge, 2019) and Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity: Gender Controversies in Times of AIDS (Ashgate, 2013) (Routledge, 2019). He is Co-Chair, African Religions Group, American Academy of Religion, Executive editor of Religion and Gender and a member of the editorial boards of Religion; Reading Religion; African Journal of Gender and Religion and Journal of Africana Religions.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, by Stella Nyanzi Introduction PART I: UGANDAN LGBTQ+ REFUGEE LIFE
STORIES Story 1: It's my nature, this is who I am Story 2: It's not like
heaven here Story 3: Here we are free to express ourselves without fear
Story 4: I consider this as my new family Story 5: Personally, I think God
is gay Story 6: Angels don't have a gender Story 7: God loves me more than
they love me Story 8: I just wanted an opportunity to express myself Story
9: I was chased away from the garden of heaven Story 10: First and
foremost, I want to be a free person Story 11: God has a purpose for us all
Story 12: God doesn't make mistakes PART II: INTER-READING UGANDAN LGBTQ+
LIFE STORIES AND BIBLE STORIES 1. Inter-reading Life Stories and Bible
Stories 2. Daniel in the Homophobic Lions' Den Poem: 'The Company of Men!',
by Tom Rogers Muyunga-Mukasa 3. Jesus and the Guys Charged with Indecency
Poem: 'Accused of a Sodomy Act', by Tom Rogers Muyunga-Mukasa 4.
Reflection: A Postcolonial and Self-reflexive Reading Conclusion