It's All under Christianity

Religious Territories in Kenya

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ID7213167
AuthorsYonatan N Gez (0000-0002-1831-3078, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Y Droz (0000-0002-9327-4064, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
Year2019
Volume7
Issue1
Pages37-61
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Africana Religions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2165-5405 • E-ISSN: 2165-5413
PublisherThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/jafrireli.7.1.0037
OpenAlexW2914388556
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

This article presents key features of Kenyan Christianity's process of Pentecostalization, emphasizing the phenomenon's dual dynamic of homogenization and fragmentation. Against the backdrop of this inherent dynamism, we introduce the religious territory perspective, which we present as actual and discursive arrangements of (il)legitimate religious practice. The borders of these territories are self-fashioned, and may be redrawn from one moment to the next or over long stretches of time. We argue that the demarcation of such religious territories reveals people's unique conception of their religious environment and their own positionality therein. We thus emphasize the intertwining of moral legitimization and actual practice, and the performative aspect of the discursive presentation of such inner religious geographies

Aesthetics · Christianity · Dynamism · Epistemology · Performative utterance · Perspective (graphical · Phenomenon · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies

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