van Klinken, A orcid.org/0000-0003-2011-5537 (2023) Pentecostal Plurality and Sexual Politics in Africana Worlds. In: Wilkinson, M and Haustein, J, (eds.) The Pentecostal World. Routledge Worlds Series . Routledge , London, UK , pp. 288-299. ISBN 9780367621803
Abstract
This chapter demonstrates the plurality of Pentecostal discourses on, and attitudes toward, issues of sexual diversity in Africana (African and African diaspora) contexts. It distinguishes and explores three discursive registers through which Pentecostals engage in sexual worldmaking: spirits, eschatology, and mission. The chapter demonstrates that each of these complementary frames is broad and flexible enough to allow for very different theological narratives and socio-political implications. Thus, although Pentecostal sexual worldmaking takes place within these discursive frames, reflecting the family resemblances within global, and specifically Africana Pentecostalism, the discourses within these frames reflect a considerable degree of flexibility and plurality and thus represent very different possibilities of Pentecostal sexual politics. In Pentecostal Christianities, the emphasis on the Holy Spirit tends to come with a broader concern with spiritual realities which often are understood in a dualist scheme of God and the Holy Spirit versus the devil, demons, and evil spirits.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 the author(s). This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in The Pentecostal World on 1 April 2023, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780367621803 |
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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: | 26 Sep 2022 14:27 |
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2024 00:13 |
Published Version: | https://www.routledge.com/9780367621803 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Series Name: | Routledge Worlds Series |
Identification Number: | 10.4324/9781003108269 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:191264 |