Images of Pain, Images of Hope: African Films as Narrative Theologies of Gender and Sexuality

Cinema is one of the great media of storytelling that, with its images and sounds, draws viewers into a different world and addresses their bodies, minds, and hearts. In this contribution, I will develop an argument for African cinema as a source of narrative theology that is contextual and liberati...

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Main Author: Knauß, Stefanie 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Exchange
Year: 2023, Volume: 52, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 34-53
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
NBE Anthropology
NCF Sexual ethics
Further subjects:B Sexism
B Narrative Theology
B Homophobia
B African cinema
B African women’s theology
B African queer theology
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Summary:Cinema is one of the great media of storytelling that, with its images and sounds, draws viewers into a different world and addresses their bodies, minds, and hearts. In this contribution, I will develop an argument for African cinema as a source of narrative theology that is contextual and liberative in its critical and constructive functions. In conversation with African women’s and queer theologies, I will then reconstruct the narrative theologies emerging from films produced in Africa that address women’s issues and diverse sexualities. I argue that they develop, through images of the pain of sexism and homophobia, a theology of hope of flourishing life. Thus, they contribute to the life of a church that is able to overcome prejudice, recognizes the gifts of its diverse communities, and is a space for all to flourish in love.
ISSN:1572-543X
Contains:Enthalten in: Exchange
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/1572543x-bja10030