On becoming and being a ‘living testimony of change’: masculinity, gender activism, and pentecostalism in South Africa
Building on ethnographic research, this article explores the significance of narrative accounts, namely testimonies and confessions, in the social project of creating reformed men in urban and peri-urban settings of present-day South Africa. By drawing attention to certain ‘family resemblances’ (Wit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2019
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2019, Volume: 49, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 371-402 |
| Further subjects: | B
nongovernmental organisations
B Masculinity B Church B Political behavior B Violence B Confessions B Religion B Testimonies B Political mobilization B Role B Political consciousness B Social consciousness B Social behavior B Pentecostalism B Self-image B Education B South Africa B Pentecostal churches B Woman B Causality B Meaning B Social change |
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