Langbeschreibung
This book explores the interconnections between Christianity, sexuality and citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa, chronicling the ways in which citizenship in the region has undergone profound changes in recent decades as a result of growing interaction between Christianity and politics, the impact of the HIV epidemic, debates about women's reproductive rights, and the growing visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Christianity, sexuality and citizenship in Africa: critical intersections 2. Masculinity, sexual citizenship and religion in post-apartheid South Africa: a field-theoretical approach 3. Pentecostal intimacies: women and intimate citizenship in the ministry of repentance and holiness in Kenya 4. The Charismatic porn-star: social citizenship and the West-African Pentecostal erotic 5. The fantastic fetus: the fetus as a super-citizen in Ghanaian Pentecostalism 6. Pentecostal Apocalypticism: hate speech, contested citizenship, and religious discourses on same-sex relations in Nigeria 7. Citizenship of Love: The Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Sexual Citizenship in a Kenyan Gay Music Video