Genders, Sexualities, and Spiritualities in African Pentecostalism
Genders, Sexualities, and Spiritualities in African Pentecostalism

Author: Chammah J. Kaunda

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-06-22

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3030423964

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This book examines the complex and multifaceted nature of African Pentecostal engagements with genders and sexualities. In the last three decades, African Pentecostalism has emerged as one the most visible and profound aspects of religious change on the continent, and is a social force that straddles cultural, economic, and political spheres. Its conventional and selective literal interpretations of the Bible with respect to gender and sexualities are increasingly perceived as exhibiting a strong influence on many aspects of social and public institutions and their moral orientations. This collection features articles which examine sexualities and genders in African Pentecostalism using interdisciplinary methodological and theoretical approaches grounded within traditional African thought systems, with the goal of enabling a broader understanding of Pentecostalism and sexualities in Africa.

Kisses of the Virgin
Kisses of the Virgin

Author: Chibesa Emmanuel

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2016-04-20

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 1524630322

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What makes kisses of the virgin sensuous, irresistible and compelling to read? It is Surriana! At the age of thirty, Surriana Banda had done everything an extravagant beautiful and stunning woman would do with men except surrendering her virginity. She liked the struggles in houses, cars, and hotels where she kept her nice long legs tightly crossed and submitted to everything except that one thing. She had been seriously warned at her initiation ceremony to have nothing to do with sex-until her wedding day. But one bright summer afternoon, she bumped into Chinuel, and from that time onwards mysterious things began to happen to her until she was forced to give up that one thing, that one thing she treasured most. Worse still, she was imprisoned, nearly blackmailed, sexually abused, impregnated and compelled to unbearable pain and Sufferings.

Christianity, Globalization, and Protective Homophobia
Christianity, Globalization, and Protective Homophobia

Author: Kapya Kaoma

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-16

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 3319663410

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This book examines how socio-political assumptions inform and shape the contestation of sexuality on the African continent. Across Africa, the idea that homosexuality is un-African, un-Christian, un-natural, and un-cultural is now well established. This book analyzes politically- and religiously-inspired protective homophobia within the context of Africa’s socioeconomic and political place in the global community. The author builds upon on-the-ground research and his groundbreaking previous studies on the cultural politics of globalization in Africa to present a wide, complex, and interdisciplinary understanding of Africa’s sexual politics.

Postcolonial Imbusa
Postcolonial Imbusa

Author: Mutale Mulenga Kaunda

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1666926256

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Using decolonial and postcolonial nego-feminism, Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women's Agency, and Indigenous Cultural Systems examines the daily lives of Bemba women and how imbusa has defined the behaviors and relations between women and men at home, church, and work.

The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages
The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages

Author: Tomasz Kamusella

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1137015934

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This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.

Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights
Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights

Author: Peter Aggleton

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 655

ISBN-13: 1003801846

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Thoroughly updated with over 30 newly written chapters, this edition of the Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Rights brings together academics and practitioners from around the world to provide an authoritative and up-to-date account of the field. Social researchers and their allies have worked hard in past decades to find new ways of understanding sexuality in a rapidly changing world. Growing attention is now given to the way sexuality intersects with other structures such as gender, age, ethnicity/race and disability, and increasing value is seen in a positive approach focused on ethics, pleasure, mutuality and reciprocity. This Handbook explores: theory, politics and early development of sexuality studies ways in which language, discourse and identification have become central to research on sex, sexuality and gender key issues across the broad media and digital ecology, demonstrating the centrality of representation, communication and digital technologies to sexual and gender practices research focusing on the body and its sexual pleasures work on forms of inequality, violence and abuse that are linked to sex, gender and sexuality The Handbook is an essential reference for researchers and educators working in the fields of sexuality studies, gender studies, sexual health and human rights, and offers key reading for mid-level and advanced students.