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Kenyan, Christian, queer : religion, LGBT activism, and arts of resistance in Africa / Adriaan van Klinken.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Africana religionsPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271085609
  • 0271085606
  • 9780271085623
  • 0271085622
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kenyan, Christian, queer.DDC classification:
  • 306.76 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ73.3.K4
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: From "African homophobia" to queer arts of resistance -- Kenyan queer critique of Christianity and homophobia -- Interlude 1: Prophetess -- Kenyan claim to queer and Christian love -- Interlude 2: Bodywork -- Kenyan queer stories of sexuality and faith -- Interlude 3: Positive -- Kenyan queer Christian community -- Interlude 4: Ambassador.
Summary: "Examines the role of religion in LGBT activism in Kenya. Offers case studies of creative forms of queer visibility through which Kenyan LGBT individuals organize and present themselves in the public domain while critically engaging and appropriating Christian beliefs, symbols, and practices"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-224) and index.

Introduction: From "African homophobia" to queer arts of resistance -- Kenyan queer critique of Christianity and homophobia -- Interlude 1: Prophetess -- Kenyan claim to queer and Christian love -- Interlude 2: Bodywork -- Kenyan queer stories of sexuality and faith -- Interlude 3: Positive -- Kenyan queer Christian community -- Interlude 4: Ambassador.

"Examines the role of religion in LGBT activism in Kenya. Offers case studies of creative forms of queer visibility through which Kenyan LGBT individuals organize and present themselves in the public domain while critically engaging and appropriating Christian beliefs, symbols, and practices"-- Provided by publisher.

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