This book examines the complex and multifaceted nature of African Pentecostal engagements with genders and sexualities. In the last three decades, African Pentecostalism has emerged as one the most visible and profound aspects of religious change on the continent, and is a social force that straddles cultural, economic, and political spheres. Its conventional and selective literal interpretations of the Bible with respect to gender and sexualities are increasingly perceived as exhibiting a strong influence on many aspects of social and public institutions and their moral orientations. This collection features articles which examine sexualities and genders in African Pentecostalism using interdisciplinary methodological and theoretical approaches grounded within traditional African thought systems, with the goal of enabling a broader understanding of Pentecostalism and sexualities in Africa.

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Chammah J. Kaunda is Assistant Professor of World Christianity and Theology in the Global Institute of Theology and college of Theology/United Graduate School of Theology, Yonsei University, South Korea.

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Introduction: African Pentecostalism, Genders, Sexualities and Spirituality

Chammah J. Kaunda

Sokfa F. John**

PART I: THEOLOGICAL, PUBLIC, AND GENDERED CONSTRUCTIONS AND VIOLENT ENACTIONS

Problematising the use of the Bible in the human sexuality and Pentecostal spirituality

Lovemore Togarasei

Moving forward in Reverse Gear? Sexuality, Dress and Public Spaces in Harare

Tapiwa Praise Mapuranga **

Publicising the 'Private': New Pentecostal Movements in Zimbabwe and the Discourses on Sexuality

Molly Manyonganise

A new man in Christ?: Pentecostalism and the construction of masculinities

Rosinah Mmannana Gabaitse

Interaction between Societal Constructions on Women Fertility and African Pentecostalism: A Seedbed for Gender-Based Violence in Swaziland

Sonene Nyawo

Zambian Pentecostalism, Gender Based Violence and Human Rights of Victims

Jackie Mapulanga-Hulston

Maureen Mapulanga Chikoya

'Clean the Nation Spiritually': The Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs (MNGRA) and National Sexual Moral Order in Zambia

Chammah J. Kaunda

Nelly Mwale

Joseph Chita

Mutale M Kaunda

PART II: MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND SINGLENESS

Afro-Pentecostalism and Marital Challenges: A Kenyan Perspective

Elizabeth Nancy Muriithi

Julius Gathogo

Josephine Gitome

The Ideal Does Not Exist On Earth: Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage in African Pentecostalism

David Tonghou Ngong

Initiation Rites and Sex Education: A Ghanaian Pentecostal Perspective

Emmanuel Kwesi Anim

An Appraisal of Pentecostal Children's Understanding of Sex and Sexuality

Mutale M. Kaunda

Josephine Y. Towani

Need but Not Numbers: Challenges Enshrined in Pentecostal Discourses of Singlehood in Zimbabwe: An African Womanist Perspective

Kudzai Biri

Sexuality, Marriage and Singleness among Pentecostal Indian Women in South Africa

Linda Naicker

'Virtual People' and Matches Made in Heaven: The Pitch of Born-Again Dating Platforms and Pentecostal Attitude towards Online Dating

Sokfa F. John

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