Images of Pain, Images of Hope: African Films as Narrative Theologies of Gender and Sexuality
Cinema is one of the great media of storytelling that, with its images and sounds, draws viewers into a different world and addresses their bodies, minds, and hearts. In this contribution, I will develop an argument for African cinema as a source of narrative theology that is contextual and liberati...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2023
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Exchange
Jahr: 2023, Band: 52, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 34-53 |
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christentum und Kultur KBN Subsahara-Afrika NBE Anthropologie NCF Sexualethik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Sexism
B Narrative Theology B Homophobia B African cinema B African women’s theology B African queer theology |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Cinema is one of the great media of storytelling that, with its images and sounds, draws viewers into a different world and addresses their bodies, minds, and hearts. In this contribution, I will develop an argument for African cinema as a source of narrative theology that is contextual and liberative in its critical and constructive functions. In conversation with African women’s and queer theologies, I will then reconstruct the narrative theologies emerging from films produced in Africa that address women’s issues and diverse sexualities. I argue that they develop, through images of the pain of sexism and homophobia, a theology of hope of flourishing life. Thus, they contribute to the life of a church that is able to overcome prejudice, recognizes the gifts of its diverse communities, and is a space for all to flourish in love. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-543X |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Exchange
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1572543x-bja10030 |