L Fesenmyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 17734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Fesenmyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Fesenmyer |
| SIGNATURE | FESENMYER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2031-5205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nairobi Becoming: Security, Uncertainty, Contingency
Nairobi Becoming is an experimental, multi-vocal, and multi-modal collection that aims both to capture and reflect the coherence and fragmentation of Kenya’s capital city. Having grown out of a ser
Introduction: Encounters with difference
This special issue examines encounters across religious difference asking how these are shaped by and exceed the limits of liberal frameworks. Building on the editors' research into religious encounters in non-liberal contexts, this volume argues that such ethnographic settings provide a distinctive vantage point for rethinking the governance and theorization of difference. Liberal discourses of diversity and tolerance often narrow our focus to p…
Majengo is a golden place: Making the ‘same’ and ‘different’ in urban Kenya
Pumwani Majengo, the first residential estate for Africans built in Nairobi in the early 1920s, is a historic site of arrival for Muslims and Christians and for Africans of different ethnicities. Given ethnic and religious tensions in post-colonial Kenya, one might expect there to be similar social fault lines in Majengo. However, I argue that the most salient distinction for local sociality is between long-time residents and newcomers or outside…
Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
The socio-economic and political uncertainties of Kenya in the 1990s jeopardised what many saw as the promises of modernity. An increasing number of Kenyans migrated, many to Britain, a country that felt familiar from Kenyan history. Based on extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer's work provides a rich, historically nuanced study of the kinship dilemmas that underlie transnational migration and explores the dynamic…
A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya, written by Mugambi, Kyama M
Ambivalent Belonging: Born-Again Christians between Africa and Europe
Historically entangled with nation, race, and religion, questions of belonging are pressing and affective ones in Africa and Europe. Against the backdrop of anti-migrant hostility, globalization, and autochthonous claims, I consider how born-again Christians in London negotiate belonging between Kenya, their country of origin, and the United Kingdom, their country of residence. As ‘migrants’ and ‘diasporans’, they are seen as not belonging in eit…
‘Living as Londoners do’: Born‐again Christians in convivial East London
Kenyan Pentecostals attempt to ‘live as Londoners do’ without compromising their devotion to God. Doing so necessitates coexisting with religious and non-religious others, including Muslims who they view simultaneously as a ‘threat’ to historically Christian Britain and an ‘example’ to emulate. While the anthropologies of Christianity and Islam have developed as separate sub-fields, pluralist settings like East London demand attention to inter-re…
Introduction: Crossing religious and ethnographic boundaries – the case for comparative reflection
This introduction to the special issue traces the development history of the sub-disciplines of the anthropologies of Christianity and Islam to suggest that these ‘monistic’ tendencies have obscured exploration and theorisation of inter-religious coexistence and encounters for people’s lives and the societies in which they live. These sub-disciplinary boundaries have further led to an unintended ‘provincialisation’ of both geographical spaces and…
Bringing the Kingdom to the City: Mission as Placemaking Practice amongst Kenyan Pentecostals in London
Kenyan Pentecostals in London (re)frame their migration as a "mission" to bring the United Kingdom back into the Kingdom of God. Focusing on the case of one church founded in the diaspora, this article examines how the pastor and church members try to realize this mission by exploring the kind of place they imagine God's Kingdom to be and their efforts to create it in London. The "spatial turn" in studies of religion has followed two general traj…
Pentecostal pastorhood as calling and career: Migration, religion, and masculinity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
This article explores the intertwining of migration and religion in the lives of migrant men who were born in Kenya and have become Pentecostal pastors in London. Drawing on the spiritual careers of several pastors, I suggest that pastorhood be understood as a gendered means of social mobility. As pastors, these men attain a status that is socially and culturally intelligible in London and Kenya. At the same time, given that status is contingent …
Place and the (Un-)making of Religious Peripheries: Weddings among Kenyan Pentecostals in London
Place and the (un-)making of
Intimate migrations: Gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans , by Boehm, Deborah A
Pentecostal pastorhood as calling and career: Migration, religion, and masculinity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
This article explores the intertwining of migration and religion in the lives of migrant men who were born in Kenya and have become Pentecostal pastors in London. Drawing on the spiritual careers of several pastors, I suggest that pastorhood be understood as a gendered means of social mobility. As pastors, these men attain a status that is socially and culturally intelligible in London and Kenya. At the same time, given that status is contingent …
Bringing the Kingdom to the City: Mission as Placemaking Practice amongst Kenyan Pentecostals in London
Kenyan Pentecostals in London (re)frame their migration as a "mission" to bring the United Kingdom back into the Kingdom of God. Focusing on the case of one church founded in the diaspora, this article examines how the pastor and church members try to realize this mission by exploring the kind of place they imagine God's Kingdom to be and their efforts to create it in London. The "spatial turn" in studies of religion has followed two general traj…
Ambivalent Belonging: Born-Again Christians between Africa and Europe
Historically entangled with nation, race, and religion, questions of belonging are pressing and affective ones in Africa and Europe. Against the backdrop of anti-migrant hostility, globalization, and autochthonous claims, I consider how born-again Christians in London negotiate belonging between Kenya, their country of origin, and the United Kingdom, their country of residence. As ‘migrants’ and ‘diasporans’, they are seen as not belonging in eit…
Intimate migrations: Gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans , by Boehm, Deborah A
Place and the (Un-)making of Religious Peripheries: Weddings among Kenyan Pentecostals in London
Place and the (un-)making of
Pentecostal pastorhood as calling and career: Migration, religion, and masculinity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
This article explores the intertwining of migration and religion in the lives of migrant men who were born in Kenya and have become Pentecostal pastors in London. Drawing on the spiritual careers of several pastors, I suggest that pastorhood be understood as a gendered means of social mobility. As pastors, these men attain a status that is socially and culturally intelligible in London and Kenya. At the same time, given that status is contingent …
Bringing the Kingdom to the City: Mission as Placemaking Practice amongst Kenyan Pentecostals in London
Kenyan Pentecostals in London (re)frame their migration as a "mission" to bring the United Kingdom back into the Kingdom of God. Focusing on the case of one church founded in the diaspora, this article examines how the pastor and church members try to realize this mission by exploring the kind of place they imagine God's Kingdom to be and their efforts to create it in London. The "spatial turn" in studies of religion has followed two general traj…
‘Living as Londoners do’: Born‐again Christians in convivial East London
Kenyan Pentecostals attempt to ‘live as Londoners do’ without compromising their devotion to God. Doing so necessitates coexisting with religious and non-religious others, including Muslims who they view simultaneously as a ‘threat’ to historically Christian Britain and an ‘example’ to emulate. While the anthropologies of Christianity and Islam have developed as separate sub-fields, pluralist settings like East London demand attention to inter-re…
Introduction: Crossing religious and ethnographic boundaries – the case for comparative reflection
This introduction to the special issue traces the development history of the sub-disciplines of the anthropologies of Christianity and Islam to suggest that these ‘monistic’ tendencies have obscured exploration and theorisation of inter-religious coexistence and encounters for people’s lives and the societies in which they live. These sub-disciplinary boundaries have further led to an unintended ‘provincialisation’ of both geographical spaces and…
Ambivalent Belonging: Born-Again Christians between Africa and Europe
Historically entangled with nation, race, and religion, questions of belonging are pressing and affective ones in Africa and Europe. Against the backdrop of anti-migrant hostility, globalization, and autochthonous claims, I consider how born-again Christians in London negotiate belonging between Kenya, their country of origin, and the United Kingdom, their country of residence. As ‘migrants’ and ‘diasporans’, they are seen as not belonging in eit…
Relative Distance: Kinship, Migration, and Christianity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
The socio-economic and political uncertainties of Kenya in the 1990s jeopardised what many saw as the promises of modernity. An increasing number of Kenyans migrated, many to Britain, a country that felt familiar from Kenyan history. Based on extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer's work provides a rich, historically nuanced study of the kinship dilemmas that underlie transnational migration and explores the dynamic…
A Spirit of Revitalization: Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya, written by Mugambi, Kyama M
Nairobi Becoming: Security, Uncertainty, Contingency
Nairobi Becoming is an experimental, multi-vocal, and multi-modal collection that aims both to capture and reflect the coherence and fragmentation of Kenya’s capital city. Having grown out of a ser
Introduction: Encounters with difference
This special issue examines encounters across religious difference asking how these are shaped by and exceed the limits of liberal frameworks. Building on the editors' research into religious encounters in non-liberal contexts, this volume argues that such ethnographic settings provide a distinctive vantage point for rethinking the governance and theorization of difference. Liberal discourses of diversity and tolerance often narrow our focus to p…
Majengo is a golden place: Making the ‘same’ and ‘different’ in urban Kenya
Pumwani Majengo, the first residential estate for Africans built in Nairobi in the early 1920s, is a historic site of arrival for Muslims and Christians and for Africans of different ethnicities. Given ethnic and religious tensions in post-colonial Kenya, one might expect there to be similar social fault lines in Majengo. However, I argue that the most salient distinction for local sociality is between long-time residents and newcomers or outside…
Sociology (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (6 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · History (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)