عنوان

God's World Is Not an Animal Farm - Or Is It? The Catachrestic Translation of Gender Equality in African Pentecostalism

شماره

LA124759

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

God's World Is Not an Animal Farm - Or Is It? The Catachrestic Translation of Gender Equality in African Pentecostalism

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Adriaan S. van Klinken

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Building on scholarly debates on Pentecostalism, gender and modernity in Africa, this article engages a postcolonial perspective to explore and discuss the ambivalent, even paradoxical nature of African Pentecostal gender discourse. It analyses the conceptualization of gender equality, in particular the attempt to reconcile the notions of 'male-female equality' and 'male headship', in a sermon series delivered by a prominent Zambian Pentecostal pastor, and argues that the appropriation and interruption of Western notions of gender equality in these sermons can be interpreted, in the words of Homi Bhabha, as a catachrestic postcolonial translation of modernity. Hence, the article critically discusses the Western ethnocentrism in some scholarly debates on gender and Pentecostalism in Africa, and points to some of the fundamental questions that Pentecostalism and its ambivalent gender discourse pose to gender-critical scholarship in the study of religion. Building on scholarly debates on Pentecostalism, gender and modernity in Africa, this article engages a postcolonial perspective to explore and discuss the ambivalent, even paradoxical nature of African Pentecostal gender discourse. It analyses the conceptualization of gender equality, in particular the attempt to reconcile the notions of 'male-female equality' and 'male headship', in a sermon series delivered by a prominent Zambian Pentecostal pastor, and argues that the appropriation and interruption of Western notions of gender equality in these sermons can be interpreted, in the words of Homi Bhabha, as a catachrestic postcolonial translation of modernity. Hence, the article critically discusses the Western ethnocentrism in some scholarly debates on gender and Pentecostalism in Africa, and points to some of the fundamental questions that Pentecostalism and its ambivalent gender discourse pose to gender-critical scholarship in the study of religion.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

240-258

عنوان

Religion and Gender

شماره جلد

3/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1878-5417

اصطلاح موضوعی

Africa

اصطلاح موضوعی

gender equality

اصطلاح موضوعی

gender paradox

اصطلاح موضوعی

modernity

اصطلاح موضوعی

Pentecostalism

اصطلاح موضوعی

postcoloniality

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Adriaan S. van Klinken

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/18785417-00302006

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y