van Klinken, AS orcid.org/0000-0003-2011-5537 (2016) Pentecostalism, Political Masculinity and Citizenship: The Born-Again Male Subject as Key to Zambia’s National Redemption. Journal of Religion in Africa, 46 (2-3). pp. 129-157. ISSN 0022-4200
Abstract
Africa has become a key site of masculinity politics, that is, of mobilisations and struggles where masculine gender is made a principal theme and subjected to change. Pentecostalism is widely considered to present a particular form of masculinity politics in contemporary African societies. Scholarship on African Pentecostal masculinities has mainly centred around the thesis of the domestication of men, focusing on changes in domestic spheres and in marital and intimate relations. Through an analysis of a sermon series preached by a prominent Zambian Pentecostal pastor, this article demonstrates that Pentecostal discourse on adult, middle- to upper-class masculinity is also highly concerned with men’s roles in sociopolitical spheres. It argues that in this case study the construction of a born-again masculinity is part of the broader Pentecostal political project of national redemption, which in Zambia has particular significance in light of the country constitutionally being a Christian nation. Hence the article examines how this construction of Pentecostal masculinity relates to broader notions of religious, political and gendered citizenship.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2016, Brill Academic Publishers. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journal of Religion in Africa. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | masculinity politics; Pentecostalism; citizenship; Zambia; sermons; gender politics; masculinities; Christianity |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2017 16:50 |
Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2018 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Brill Academic Publishers |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:109960 |