Through 20 annotated, semi-structured interviews with inspirational Kenyan and Ugandan Christian and Muslim leaders actively involved in struggles for LGBTQ rights, this open access book shows how religious leaders in East African countries can be agents of progressive social change. Utilising a revolutionary new life-story methodology, a team of field-leading scholars and practitioners from Africa and the UK draws out crucial, critical insights into the personal, theological, and social sacrifices and challenges that these religious leaders face in everyday realities dominated by conservative religious interpretations and theologies. In so doing, they also identify common strategies religious leaders develop to respond to these challenges while keeping true to their mission. For its engaging, accessible methodology as well as its powerful challenges to the ways in which many people speak about the relations between religion and LGBTQ rights in Africa, this book is a must-read. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
| Autor: | Bompani, Barbara Klinken, Adriaan van Mbote, David Kuria Parsitau, Damaris |
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| ISBN: | 9781350415997 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Bloomsbury |
| Veröffentlicht: | 03.10.2024 |
| Untertitel: | Religious Leaders and LGBTIQ Inclusion in East Africa |
| Schlagworte: | East Africa Gender studies, gender groups Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest RELIGION / Leadership RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies Relating to LGBTQ+ people Religious & spiritual leaders Religious and spiritual figures SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies |
David Kuria Mbote is an independent consultant and researcher and is executive director of the Kuria Foundation for Social Enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a leader of the Kenyan Gender and Sexual Minority rights movement. He also has researched religious leaders and LGBT inclusion in Kenya, publishing this work in journals such as Pastoral Psychology and Journal of Sex Research.Damaris Parsitau is a scholar of religion, currently serving as Director of the British Institute for Eastern Africa, in Nairobi, Kenya. She has published extensively on issues of religion, gender and society, with a focus on Pentecostal Christianity. She also serves as President of the African Association for the Study of Religions.Barbara Bompani is a Reader in Africa and International Development at the Centre of African Studies, the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research broadly focuses on religion, politics and development in Africa. In the past ten years, she investigated the relationships between sexuality and public religion, in particular conservative Christianity, in East Africa. She has published widely on these topics, and was co-editor of the volume Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State (2017).Adriaan van Klinken is Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, where he also serves as Director of the Leeds University Centre for African Studies and the Centre for Religion and Public Life. His research intersects religion, sexuality and public life in Africa. Among other publications he is the author of Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism and Arts of Resistance in Africa (2019) and co-author of Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa (2021) and of Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives and the Bible (2021).