Homosexuality, Created Bodies, and Queer Fantasies in a Nigerian Deliverance Church
Abstract In recent years the use of ‘gay cure’ therapies by religions has become a major public controversy in the West. Deliverance, or exorcism, is pointed to as an example of a Christian practice used to try and change a person’s sexuality. Pentecostal churches specialising in deliverance have be...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2020, Volume: 50, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 249-277 |
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Nigeria
/ Pentecostal churches
/ Homosexuality
/ Exorcism
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CB Christian life; spirituality KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church ZB Sociology |
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African sexuality
B Pentecostalism B Deliverance B Spiritual warfare B Africa B Homophobia B Gay rights B gay-conversion therapies |
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