The vetting impasse: the ‘churches law’ and Kenya’s religious regulation debate
Over the last decade Kenya has been seeing a lively debate over the regulation of its ever-expanding religious market and demands for a new ‘Churches Law’. Tales of hypocritical abuse of power and of emerging cults coalesced with security concerns regarding religious extremism, leading to the propos...
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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: 1/2, Pages: 54-78 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kenya
/ Religious pluralism
/ State
/ Religion
/ Internal security
/ Legislation
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations KBN Sub-Saharan Africa XA Law ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
religious regulation
B Pentecostalism B Legislation B Fundamentalism B Kenya B religious scandals |
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| Summary: | Over the last decade Kenya has been seeing a lively debate over the regulation of its ever-expanding religious market and demands for a new ‘Churches Law’. Tales of hypocritical abuse of power and of emerging cults coalesced with security concerns regarding religious extremism, leading to the proposal to tighten regulatory control over the religious market, which expanded rapidly since the 1990s. Despite widespread recognition of the problem, new legislative steps have failed so far, notably even leading to a controversial 2014 moratorium on the registration of new religious denominations. This article analyzes this legislative impasse and offers an explanation in terms of the ambivalent yet symbiotic relations between religion and state in Kenya. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 72-76, Literaturhinweise |
| ISSN: | 1570-0666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Africa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700666-12340181 |