Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1770048
Adriaan van Klinken
ABSTRACT In this interview, Rev. Dr Bishop Christopher Senyonjo narrates his involvement in LGBT advocacy in Uganda, and reflects on his pastoral and theological motivation and inspiration for this work.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1738206
C. Greenough
First, there is an age old saying that you should not judge a book by its cover, but the exceptional vibrancy of the beautiful image on the cover of this book attests to how that saying is absolute nonsense. Do judge this book by its cover. For me, the richness of the cover image certainly matches its contents. The book explores what van Klinken terms “arts of resistance”, “artivism” and grassroots lgbt activism in Kenya specifically and Africa more broadly, and the book is both transdisciplinary and intimate in tone. The simple wish of the book is to serve as a counter narrative to the idea of African homophobia, an aim which is amply achieved. This book undoubtedly enriches the small, but emerging area of sexual storytelling in global queer and religious studies, with its particular focus on questions of justice and the debates around human sexuality. Van Klinken’s premise is that “queer story telling is a form of queer world making” (101). The book presents four case studies that are Kenyan as well as more broadly African in scope, as they take on “continental relevance and significance” (17). The case studies are focused around three main themes: narrations of sexuality, narrations of place and belonging and narrations of religion and faith. In the first case study, van Klinken explores the writings and activist work of the openly gay social critic Binyavanga Wainaina, focusing specifically on Wainaina’s critique of Pentecostal Christianity and homophobia. The second case study focuses on the “Same Love” music video released by the Kenyan hip-hop group Art Attack in 2016. Van Klinken reads the representations of same-sex love, queer identities and the issues of religion and homophobia in the music video. The anthology, Stories of our Lives, compiled by the Kenyan art collective, The Nest, is the subject of the third case study. The use of storytelling allows van Klinken to explore the connections between sexual, cultural and religious identities and these connections allow people to assert their non-normative gender or sexual identities in their faith traditions. The final case study, then, is an ethnographic exploration of a lgbt affirming church in Kenya, Cosmopolitan Affirming Church, undertaken in 2013. Through observations and interviews with participants, van Klinken explores religious practices within the church, noting how the church provides a space for queer empowerment. This allows for a grassroots Kenyan queer theology. In his use of different case studies, van Klinken does not aim to provide a systematic approach, instead he expresses preference for an “eclectic array of ‘data’ or source material” (19). Van Klinken resists established, traditional, systematic approaches and favours a “methodological queerness” (19). This approach is commendable, as research labelled “queer” in theology and religious studies allows researchers to move beyond normative models of academic research. In addition to embracing queerness methodologically
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1770050
K. Ward
ABSTRACT Bishop Christopher Senyonjo has become widely known for his support for the LGBT community in Uganda. Bishop Senyonjo was a diocesan bishop in the Anglican Church of Uganda from 1974 to 1998. It was during the period after his retirement that he became well known within Uganda for his defence of the LGBT community in Uganda. This was in the aftermath of the 1998 Lambeth Conference, in which the issue of homosexuality became a major source of conflict within the Anglican communion. This article locates Senyonjo and his ministry within the history and culture of the Church of Uganda, numerically one of the strongest provinces of the Anglican Communion, and an institution deeply embedded within Ugandan history and culture.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1778967
Katie M. Deaver
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1770049
Adriaan van Klinken
ABSTRACT This introduction to the special section dedicated to Bishop Christopher Senyonjo puts his ministry in the wider context of contemporary African Christianity, in particular African Christian politics of homosexuality and LGBT rights.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1790987
A. Alak
ABSTRACT This article presents the complex, dynamic, multidimensional interplay between gender, as a major category of analysis, and religion, religious studies and theology, especially feminist theology. In the first part of the article we explain the mechanisms that create the inextricable embeddedness between these two dynamic identitary and social organizing principles: gender and religion. Also, we analyze the manner in which the plural significations and conceptualizations of gender were integrated in feminist debates regarding religious studies and religion and the conflict that still manifests between the study of religion and gender. The second part of the article will concentrate on the manner in which feminist theologians are deconstructing the patriarchal and androcentric translations of religion in a framework characterized by disciplinary fluidity, ambiguity, intersectionality and self-reflexivity. Muslim feminist theologies will serve as a final example of the unifying potential of feminist theologies.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1726721
S. Tilton
Across United States society, from congressional halls to church sanctuaries, there are very few issues that involve rhetoric as polemical or as polarizing as abortion. In her new book, Abortion an...
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1770046
A. McFadyen
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the work of Bishop Christopher Senyonjo in the light of Christian theology. It pursues a simple yet complex question: what is theological about Senyonjo’s ministry among, and advocacy for, LGBT people in Uganda? Offering a reading of Senyonjo’s autobiography In Defense of All God’s Children, I point out that his work is not so much informed by a secular agenda or an abstract conception of human rights, but is fundamentally oriented towards missio dei. In other words, it is concerned with, and contributes to, what God is doing in the world, especially among communities most vulnerable to, and damaged by, the dehumanizing effects of homophobia as sin-talk. Senyonjo’s ministry is theologically grounded in the belief that God is love, and that love therefore is the primary Christian virtue, radically affirming the humanity of all God’s children.
本文从基督教神学的角度对塞永约主教的工作进行反思。它追求的是一个简单而复杂的问题:Senyonjo在乌干达LGBT人群中的事工和倡导有什么神学意义?在阅读Senyonjo的自传《捍卫所有上帝的孩子》(In Defense of All God’s Children)时，我指出，他的作品并没有太多世俗的议程或抽象的人权概念，而是从根本上面向上帝的使命。换句话说，它关注并促成了上帝在世界上的作为，尤其是在那些最容易受到同性恋恐惧症的非人化影响的群体中。仙延祖的事奉在神学上是建立在上帝就是爱的信念之上的，因此爱是基督教的主要美德，从根本上肯定了上帝所有孩子的人性。
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1721408
Caralie Focht
ABSTRACT This article assesses Exodus’ Egypt as lesbian bar culture of the 1940s and 1950s, treating the main characters of Moses, Pharaoh, Yhwh as competing butches for the femme, Israel. The article utilizes a gender reversal, queer-ideological critical approach in order to read the biblical text of Exodus 2–6 and 14 in the way accessible to the lesbian community.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1722563
M. Lawler, Todd A. Salzman
ABSTRACT The problems of intersex have received little attention from both Catholic Magisterium and theologians. Early in 2019, the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education issued a document intended to be a pathway for a dialogue on the issue of gender in education. This essay responds to that document as a contribution to filling theological gaps in the consideration of intersex. It first explains and critiques the theological anthropology underlying the Vatican document and then analyzes and critiques Western cultural, medical approaches to intersex persons. It dialogues with the experience of intersex persons and the social sciences that document it and concludes by proposing ethical principles to guide intersex persons, their parents, and their physicians in the care and treatment of intersex.
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