Christianity, Globalization, and Protective Homophobia Democratic Contestation of Sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa /

• Main Author: Kaoma, Kapya (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Africa-Politics and government.; Gender identity-Religious aspects.; Religion and sociology.; African Politics.; Religion and Gender.; Sociology of Religion.
• Physical Description: XIV, 185 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319663418
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66341-8

This book examines how socio-political assumptions inform and shape the contestation of sexuality on the African continent. Across Africa, the idea that homosexuality is un-African, un-Christian, un-natural, and un-cultural is now well established. This book analyzes politically- and religiously-inspired protective homophobia within the context of Africa's socioeconomic and political place in the global community. The author builds upon on-the-ground research and his groundbreaking previous studies on the cultural politics of globalization in Africa to present a wide, complex, and interdisciplinary understanding of Africa's sexual politics.