LGBTIQ + People and Pentecostals
Title | LGBTIQ + People and Pentecostals PDF eBook |
Author | Marius Nel |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 397 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Hermeneutics |
ISBN | 3643962487 |
LGBTIQ + people and Pentecostals
Title | LGBTIQ + people and Pentecostals PDF eBook |
Author | Marius Nel |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
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ISBN | 364391248X |
This book provides Pentecostals with the necessary equipment and motivation to contribute to one of Africa's important ethical challenges, LGBTIQ+ people and Africa's homophobic reaction to them. The study is aimed at Christian believers and pastors, to empower them with relevant information about the issue. The issue is discussed in terms of existing biological, psychological, anthropological, sociological, philosophical and queer theory knowledge, along with a study of the biblical texts, in order to answer the question, what should a responsible African Pentecostal response be towards the LGBTIQ+ issue, and what should Pentecostals' attitude be towards such people?
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ISBN | 022653720X |
The Gay Gospels
Title | The Gay Gospels PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Sharpe |
Publisher | John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | |
Genre | Religion |
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This book refutes the idea that the Bible is homophobic and makes visible the gay lives and validated homoerotic experience to be found in it.
Happy: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity
Title | Happy: LGBTQ+ Experiences of Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Jennings |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2023-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3031201442 |
This book relates the unique experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ+) people in Australian Pentecostal-Charismatic Christian churches. Grounded in the theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Lewis Coser, and others, the book exposes the discursive ‘battleground’ over the ‘truth’ of sex which underlies the participants’ stories. These rich and complex narratives reveal the stakes of this conflict, manifested in ‘the line’ – a barrier restricting out LGBTQ+ people from full participation in ministry and service. Although some participants related stories of supportive—if typically conservative—congregations where they felt able to live out an authentic, integrated faith, others found they could only leave their formerly close and supportive communities behind, ‘counter-rejecting’ the churches and often the faith that they felt had rejected them.
A Life of Unlearning
Title | A Life of Unlearning PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Venn-Brown |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 2015-09-28 |
Genre | Clergy |
ISBN | 9780994152411 |
A life of denial, exorcisms, gay conversion therapy and 16 years of marriage, crashed to a humiliating end for this high-profile Pentecostal preacher. A chance meeting propels him through a devastating maze of public scandal, rejection and isolation. Can he rebuild his life? Read this brutally honest story of one man's journey to authenticity.
Desire Work
Title | Desire Work PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Hackman |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2018-08-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 147800231X |
In postapartheid Cape Town—Africa's gay capital—many Pentecostal men turned to "ex-gay" ministries in hopes of “curing” their homosexuality in order to conform to conservative Christian values and African social norms. In Desire Work Melissa Hackman traces the experiences of predominantly white ex-gay men as they attempt to forge a heterosexual masculinity and enter into heterosexual marriage through emotional, bodily, and religious work. These men subjected themselves to daily self-surveillance and followed prescribed behaviors such as changing how they talked and walked. Ex-gay men also saw themselves as participating in the redemption of the nation, because South African society was perceived as suffering from a crisis of masculinity in which the country lacked enough moral heterosexual men. By tying the experience of ex-gay men to the convergence of social movements and public debates surrounding race, violence, religion, and masculinity in South Africa, Hackman offers insights into the construction of personal identities in the context of sexuality and spirituality.