Parsitau, D and van Klinken, A orcid.org/0000-0003-2011-5537 (2018) Pentecostal intimacies: women and intimate citizenship in the ministry of repentance and holiness in Kenya. Citizenship Studies, 22 (6). pp. 586-602. ISSN 1362-1025
Abstract
This article explores the intersections of gender, sexuality and citizenship in the context of one prominent neo-Pentecostal movement in Kenya, the Ministry of Repentance and Holiness (MRH) led by the charismatic Prophet David Owuor. Employing the concept of intimate citizenship, the article analyses, first, how MRH engages in a contestation of intimate citizenship in the contemporary Kenyan public sphere, especially in relation to women’s bodies. Second, it examines how MRH simultaneously configures, through a range of highly intimate beliefs, practices and techniques, an alternative form of intimate citizenship defined by moral purity and concerned with a political project of moral regeneration. Coining the notion of ‘Pentecostal intimacies’, the article provides insight into the reasons why so many people, especially women, are attracted to MRH, and hence it interrogates the liberal frame in which intimate citizenship is usually conceptualised.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Pentecostalism; Christianity; intimate citizenship; sexual citizenship; women; Kenya; Citizenship; sexuality; gender |
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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: | 23 Apr 2018 10:44 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2020 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13621025.2018.1494903 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:129900 |