Pentecostalism, Political Masculinity and Citizenship: the born-again male subject as key to Zambia's national redemption$nElektronische Ressource

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. Scholars...

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Published in:Journal of religion in Africa
Main Author: Van Klinken, A. S. 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of religion in Africa
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Zambia / Pentecostal churches / Masculinity / Politics / Citizen of a country / Redemption
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDG Free church
NBK Soteriology
Further subjects:B masculinity politics Pentecostalism citizenship Zambia sermons gender politics
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1570-0666
Contains:In: Journal of religion in Africa
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340072