Christian Creations of New Spaces of Sexuality, Reproduction, and Relationships in Africa

Exploring Faith and Religious Heterotopia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3933171
AutoresAstrid Bochow (Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle African Studies Centre, Leiden), R Van Dijk (0000-0003-1388-4733, Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle African Studies Centre, Leiden)
Ano2012
Volume42
Fascículo4
Páginas325-344
Data de publicação2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15700666-12341235
OpenAlexW1645842374
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas32
Referências citadas27

In many African societies today Christian churches, Pentecostals in particular, are an important source of information on sexuality, relationships, the body, and health, motivated in part by the HIV/AIDS pandemic but also related to globally circulating ideas and images that make people rethink gender relations and identities through the lens of 'romantic love'. Contextualizing the contemporary situation in the history of Christian movements in Africa, and by applying Foucault's notion of heterotopia, this introduction and the subsequent papers show that Christian doctrines and practices are creating social spaces of altering relational ethics, identities and gender roles that appeal especially to upwardly mobile women

Anthropology of religion · Appeal · Epistemology · Faith · Heterotopia (medicine) · History of religions · Human sexuality · Political science · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies