ISBN:
9781472445513
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (290 p)
Series Statement:
Religion in Modern Africa
Parallel Title:
Print version Klinken, Adriaan van Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Public religion and the politics of homosexuality in Africa
DDC:
200.8664096
Keywords:
Religion
;
Christentum
;
Islam
;
Pfingstbewegung
;
Meinung
;
Homosexualität
;
Minderheitenrecht
;
Politische Mobilisierung
;
Politisierung
;
Afrika
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Homosexualität
;
Politik
;
Öffentlichkeit
;
Religion
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: public religion, homophobia and the politics of homosexuality in Africa -- Part 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 -- 2 Uniting a divided nation? Nigerian Muslim and Christian responses to the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act -- 3 Discourses on homosexuality in Egypt: when religion and the state cooperate
Abstract:
4 'We will chop their heads off': homosexuality versus religio-political grandstanding in Zimbabwe -- 5 'Un-natural', 'un-African' and 'un-Islamic': the three pronged onslaught undermining homosexual freedom in Kenya -- 6 Côte d'Ivoire and the new homophobia: the autochthonous ethic and the spirit of neoliberalism -- Part II Global and local mobilisations -- 7 An African or un-African sexual identity? Religion, globalisation and sexual politics in sub-Saharan Africa -- 8 The extraversion of homophobia: global politics and sexuality in Uganda
Abstract:
9 Religious inspiration: indigenous mobilisation against LGBTI rights in post-conflict Liberia -- 10 Islamic movements against homosexuality in Senegal: the fight against AIDS as catalyst -- 11 One love, or chanting down same-sex relations? Queering Zimbabwean Rastafari perspectives on homosexuality -- 12 Narratives of 'saints' and 'sinners' in Uganda: contemporary (re)presentations of the 1886 story of Mwanga and Ganda 'martyrs' -- Part III Contestation, subversion and resistance -- 13 Critique and alternative imaginations: homosexuality and religion in contemporary Zimbabwean literature
Abstract:
14 Christianity, human rights and LGBTI advocacy: the case of Dette Resources Foundation in Zambia -- 15 'I was on fire': the challenge of counter-intimacies within Zimbabwean Christianity -- 16 Critical realism and LGBTIQ rights in Africa -- Appendix: African LGBTI manifesto -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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