Homosexuality, Created Bodies, and Queer Fantasies in a Nigerian Deliverance Church
Abstract In recent years the use of ‘gay cure’ therapies by religions has become a major public controversy in the West. Deliverance, or exorcism, is pointed to as an example of a Christian practice used to try and change a person’s sexuality. Pentecostal churches specialising in deliverance have be...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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Brill
2020
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Journal of religion in Africa
Anno: 2020, Volume: 50, Fascicolo: 3/4, Pagine: 249-277 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Nigeria
/ Movimento pentecostale
/ Omosessualità
/ Esorcismo
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | AD Sociologia delle religioni CB Esistenza cristiana KBN Africa subsahariana KDG Chiese libere ZB Sociologia |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
African sexuality
B Pentecostalism B Deliverance B Spiritual warfare B Africa B Homophobia B Gay rights B gay-conversion therapies |
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| Riepilogo: | Abstract In recent years the use of ‘gay cure’ therapies by religions has become a major public controversy in the West. Deliverance, or exorcism, is pointed to as an example of a Christian practice used to try and change a person’s sexuality. Pentecostal churches specialising in deliverance have become particularly popular on the African continent in the last few decades, where beliefs that homosexuality is immoral and un-African are also widespread. At the same time, public discourse about African attitudes to sexuality in the West tends to misunderstand the way religion contributes to cultures of heteronormativity in Africa. This article analyses how African deliverance churches view same-sex relations by investigating a large Nigerian deliverance church publicly accused of practising conversion therapies. It argues that the church’s views on homosexuality derive from its theological understanding of human creation, and that there is more scope for queer expression than first appears. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0666 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Africa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340192 |