Kenyan, Christian, Queer : Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa / Adriaan van Klinken.
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TextSeries: Africana Religions ; 3Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type: - 9780271085623
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- HQ73.3.K4
- online - DeGruyter
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (dgr)9780271085623 |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: -- 1 Kenyan Queer Critique of Christianity and Homophobia -- 2 Kenyan Claim to Queer and Christian Love -- 3 Kenyan Queer Stories of Sexuality and Faith -- 4 Kenyan Queer Christian Community -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Popular narratives cite religion as the driving force behind homophobia in Africa, portraying Christianity and LGBT expression as incompatible. Without denying Christianity's contribution to the stigma, discrimination, and exclusion of same-sex-attracted and gender-variant people on the continent, Adriaan van Klinken presents an alternative narrative, foregrounding the ways in which religion also appears as a critical site of LGBT activism.Taking up the notion of "arts of resistance," Kenyan, Christian, Queer presents four case studies of grassroots LGBT activism through artistic and creative expressions-including the literary and cultural work of Binyavanga Wainaina, the "Same Love" music video produced by gay gospel musician George Barasa, the Stories of Our Lives anthology project, and the LGBT-affirming Cosmopolitan Affirming Church. Through these case studies, Van Klinken demonstrates how Kenyan traditions, black African identities, and Christian beliefs and practices are being navigated, appropriated, and transformed in order to allow for queer Kenyan Christian imaginations.Transdisciplinary in scope and poignantly intimate in tone, Kenyan, Christian, Queer opens up critical avenues for rethinking the nature and future of the relationship between Christianity and queer activism in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
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