Queer fragility and Christian social ethics

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ID20061410
AuthorsSimon Nyeck (corresponding author), S N Nyeck
Year2016
Pages110-124
Publication date2016-05-12
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueChristianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315571928-8
OpenAlexW2904832271
ISBN9781315571928
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This chapter investigates the hybrid role the Catholic Church in Cameroon plays in the debate about homosexuality, its origin and causes. It concerns the rhetorical disturbance that queerness presents to a vision of a new Christian social ethos in Cameroon and beyond. The chapter concerns the kinds of disturbances the production and consumption of the idea of homosexuality inject in a project of a renewed Christian ethics in this country and beyond. A new vision of Christian ethics frees the church from self-denial. The chapter concerns with Catholic theologian Emmanuel Katongole's genuflexion to a transcendental order of claims, that is claims about Jesus as Savior, and more with possible articulations of the socio-political implications of the idea that salvation is not only spiritual. It connects the dots between Katongole's general premise of a new Christian ethics and the simple stories that Cameroonians tell themselves when the uncanny queer fragility take centre-stage

Environmental ethics · Fragility · Queer · Sociology · Chemistry · Gender Studies · German Social Sciences and History · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Reproductive Health and Technologies

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