Christianity, Sexuality and Citizenship in Africa

Adriaan van Klinken, Ebenezer Obadare

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780367663834
• eBook ISBN: 9780429638244
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

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.

Case studies examine the emergence of Christianity, especially in its Pentecostal-Charismatic forms, as a public religion, and how this emergence has meant that Christian actors, beliefs and practices have increasingly come to manifest themselves in the public sphere. The contributors assess how many political and religious leaders are invested in a popular ideology of the heterosexual family as the basis of nation-building, and how this defines narratives of nationhood and shapes notions of citizenship. Additional case studies focus on the emergence of sexuality as a critical site of citizenship and nationhood in postcolonial Africa, and address the difficulties that LGBT communities face in claiming recognition from the state.

Offering case studies from across sub-Saharan Africa and spanning several academic disciplines and critical perspectives, this book will be of interest to researchers seeking to understand the complex intersections of religion, sexuality, politics and citizenship across the region.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies.

Index

Note: Notes are represented with pages followed by note number.

abortion 35, 36, 74, 99

acts of citizenship 95, 98–9, 106

Adeboye, E.A. 82;

Abba Father 4 89n11; same-sex relations: against African culture 83, 88; obstacle to socioeconomic development 82–3; threat to humankind 83–4; against the will of God 82

African reformation 3

Akinola, Peter Jasper 81, 83

AmaNazarites 18

Ampofo, Akosua 65

Anderson, Allan 3, 4

anti-gay legislation 78, 79, 81, 84

Anti-Homosexuality Act 7, 48, 99

anti-homosexuality laws 79–80

Anti-Pornography Bill 7, 31

apocalypticism 82–4

Arboretum 102, 105

Art Attack 94, 98, 99

Asamoah-Gyadu, J. Kwabena 50, 65, 69

Bacchi, C.L. 72, 73

barrenness 65–6, 74, 75, 82, 84

Beasley, C. 72, 73

Berlant, Lauren 64, 70, 73, 104, 105

Bochow, A. 19

bodily autonomy 72

Bompani, Barbara 5, 32

boni (brackish water in which no fish can thrive) 65

Bordo, Susan 64, 72

born-again Christian 5–6, 22, 35–6, 38, 97

Bourdieu, P. 14, 16

Bourdieu’s theory of social fields 7, 14, 16–17

Browning, Melissa 40

Butticci, Annalisa 50

Casanova, Jose 5

Catholic and Protestant 4

Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) 86

Charismatic porn-star 8, 49

Christianity: Catholic and Protestant 4; Pentecostal-Charismatic forms (see Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity (PCC)); population growth 3

citizenship: civic disenchantment 2, 3; co...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Christianity, sexuality and citizenship in Africa: critical intersections
• Masculinity, sexual citizenship and religion in post-apartheid South Africa: a field-theoretical approach
• Pentecostal intimacies: women and intimate citizenship in the ministry of repentance and holiness in Kenya
• The Charismatic porn-star: social citizenship and the West-African Pentecostal erotic
• The fantastic fetus: the fetus as a super-citizen in Ghanaian Pentecostalism
• Pentecostal Apocalypticism: hate speech, contested citizenship, and religious discourses on same-sex relations in Nigeria
• Citizenship of Love: The Politics, Ethics and Aesthetics of Sexual Citizenship in a Kenyan Gay Music Video
• Index