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Stories of Change: Religious Leaders and LGBTQ Inclusion in East Africa

Autor David Kuria Mbote, Damaris Parsitau, Barbara Bompani, Adriaan van Klinken
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 oct 2024
Through 20 annotated, semi-structured interviews with inspirational Kenyan and Ugandan Christian and Muslim leaders actively involved in struggles for LGBTQ rights, this open access book shows how religious leaders in East African countries can be agents of progressive social change. Utilising a revolutionary new life-story methodology, a team of field-leading scholars and practitioners from Africa and the UK draws out crucial, critical insights into the personal, theological, and social sacrifices and challenges that these religious leaders face in everyday realities dominated by conservative religious interpretations and theologies. In so doing, they also identify common strategies religious leaders develop to respond to these challenges while keeping true to their mission. For its engaging, accessible methodology as well as its powerful challenges to the ways in which many people speak about the relations between religion and LGBTQ rights in Africa, this book is a must-read. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350416000
ISBN-10: 1350416002
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Offers new critical insights into the role of religious leaders as possible agents of progressive social change, especially in relation to sexual and gender diversity

Notă biografică

David Kuria Mbote is Executive Director of the Kuria Foundation for Social Enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as a leader of the Kenyan gender and sexual minority rights movement. His work on religious leaders and LGBT inclusion in Kenya has appeared in journals such as Pastoral Psychology and the Journal of Sex Research. Damaris Parsitau is a scholar of religion currently serving as Director of the British Institute for Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. She has published extensively on issues of religion, gender and society, with a focus on Pentecostal Christianity. She also serves as President of the African Association for the Study of Religions. Barbara Bompani is a Reader in Africa and International Development at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. Her research broadly focuses on religion, politics, and development in Africa. She has published widely on these topics and was co-editor of Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State (2017). Adriaan van Klinken is Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Leeds, where he serves as Director of the Leeds University Centre for African Studies and as Director of the Centre for Religion and Public Life. He is the author of Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism and Arts of Resistance in Africa (2019), co-author of Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa (2021) and co-author of Sacred Queer Stories: Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugee Lives and the Bible (2021).

Cuprins

Foreword: A testament and source of hope, by Ezra ChitandoIntroduction: Religious leaders and LGBTIQ inclusion in East AfricaPART I: Stories of LGBTIQ religious leadersChapter 1. Pastor Caroline: 'God is like a mother who holds you when you cry'Chapter 2. Reverend Jalendo: 'I have learned from my own woundedness'Chapter 3. Pastor Trevor: 'If there is anything that has taught me about God, it is my same-sex attraction'Chapter 4. Mama Annette: 'My existence as a trans pastor is a manifestation of God's love'Chapter 5. Pastor Aggie: 'I am learning to accept and live with my scars'Chapter 6. Pastor Ria: 'We need to remember that God does not make mistakes'Chapter 7. Pastor Deron: 'The Lord has a reason why I am a transwoman'Chapter 8. Bishop James: 'Some of us are martyrs by doing this work'PART II: Stories of LGBTIQ-allied religious leadersChapter 9. Pastor Silvina: 'My role is to be a tree that bears fruits'Chapter 10. Pastor Neema: 'My task is to respect divinity as reflected in each of us'Chapter 11. Evangelist Vincent: 'My hope is that LGBTIQ people will know God'Chapter 12. Pastor Stephen: 'I arrived at the point of repenting for my homophobia'Chapter 13. Pastor Zipporah: 'I persevere with my calling to preach love in the community'Chapter 14. Evangelist Josephine: 'As a mother in the community, I should have no boundaries'Chapter 15. Pastor Laura: 'I feel like Queen Esther, who put her life at risk to save others'Chapter 16. Bishop Roger: 'When you start being inclusive, you are branded'Chapter 17. Reverend Kimindu: 'This can only be a calling, or I would have stopped long ago'Chapter 18. Fr Marangi: 'I do not support LGBTIQ people as an activist, but as a Christian'Chapter 19. Sheikh Dawoud: 'I do not promote homosexuality, I just protect people who are part of our community'Chapter 20. Sheikh Abdallah: 'LGBTIQ people have gifts which we need for the umma to grow'Chapter 21. Youth leader Abdi: 'We have to stand with them because of that brother- and sisterhood'Chapter 22. Bishop Joseph: 'We will come to accept our LGBTQ+ children as a blessing'Chapter 23. Professor Vashti: 'My grandmother taught me that faith and activism go hand in hand'Chapter 24. Bishop Senyonjo: 'God is still creating, and he continues to reveal things'Conclusion