20 research outputs found
Taking up the cudgels against gay rights? Trends and trajectories in African Christian theologies on homosexuality
Against the background of the HIV epidemic and the intense public controversy on homosexuality in African societies, this article investigates the discourses of academic African Christian theologians on homosexuality. Distinguishing some major strands in African theology, that is, inculturation, liberation, women’s and reconstruction theology, the article examines how the central concepts of culture, liberation, justice, and human rights function in these discourses. On the basis of a qualitative analysis of a large number of publications, the article shows that stances of African theologians are varying from silence and rejection to acceptance. Although many African theologians have taken up the cudgels against gay rights, some “dissident voices” break the taboo and develop more inclusive concepts of African identity and African Christianity
Commodification, decolonisation and theological education in Africa: Renewed challenges for African theologians
Gunter Best, Culture and Language of the Turkana of Northwestern Kenya. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universtitätsverlag, 1983, 177 pp., 3 032353 hardback, 3 533 032361 paperback.
The impact of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians: French zone on church and African theology issues
What now of the Vashti character in the Hebrew Bible? Ruminating on the future of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians among emerging scholars in Democratic Republic of the Congo
�Moving in Circles� � a <i>Sankofa�Kairos</i> theology of inclusivity and accountability rooted in Trinitarian theology as a resource for restoring the liberating legacy of <i>The Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians</i>
Promoting gender equality in the context of Nigerian cultural and religious expression: beyond increasing female access to education
“In the Image of God”: Reconstructing and Developing a Grassroots African Queer Theology from Urban Zambia
This article is a contribution towards the development of queer theologies in contemporary African contexts. Based on fieldwork in the gay community in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, the article explores the significance of the theological notion of the Imago Dei, the Image of God, in the self-understanding of Zambian gay men as being gay and Christian. Bringing this incipient grassroots theology into conversation with broader theological discourses, in particular African theology (including African women’s theology) and queer theology, we interrogate current understandings of the Imago Dei that either ignore sexuality or exclude same-sex loving people (in African theology) or that conceptualize queerness from white Western privileged perspectives (in queer theology). Hence we develop the notion of the Imago Dei as a stepping stone towards an African queer theology