Response: Civilizational Sexualities
© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissionsoup.com I AM HONORED to have the opportunity to respond to these articles as they traverse critical junctures that interest...
Subtitles: | Roundtable on LGBTIQ people in Africa |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 83, Issue: 4, Pages: 965-976 |
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Summary: | © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the American Academy of Religion. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissionsoup.com I AM HONORED to have the opportunity to respond to these articles as they traverse critical junctures that interest me deeply, particularly the links between religious studies, queer studies, and postcolonial studies. I elaborate further on my impressions of some of the points made in the articles, but I begin by confessing that I am not an expert on Africa. I worked in Kenya briefly as a law intern at the Kenya Human Rights Commission in the early 2000s, and my experience was humbling. Seeing the ways in which Kenyans had mastered the language of human rights to ensure the flow of donor dollars was eye opening to a young aspiring lawyer enchanted by Africa. My training in law school and at NGOs in North... |
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ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv088 |