Bourgeois Abstinence: Sexuality, Individualism, and Performances of Class among Pentecostal Middle Class Youth in South Africa
This article investigates how religious images and social class produce notions and understandings of sexuality and hiv/aids in urban middle class youth in South Africa. It argues that social class is central for understanding the relationships between religion and sexual ideologies, intimacies, and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 25, Pages: 126-159 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious sociology
B Social sciences B Religionspsycholigie B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft B Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft & Religionswissenschaft |
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| Summary: | This article investigates how religious images and social class produce notions and understandings of sexuality and hiv/aids in urban middle class youth in South Africa. It argues that social class is central for understanding the relationships between religion and sexual ideologies, intimacies, and relationship practices. Social class status prefigures sexual choices while such influences are reinforced through an evangelical idiom of life and sexuality as gifts from God. Middle class youth value abstinence because they see their lives as valuable and successful, which is precisely what their class status allows them to see. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004272385_009 |